Amanda Taub

Ilya Ponomarev, exiled for voting against the annexation of Crimea, speaks out on Putin’s Russia.

What are we supposed to do about rules that contradict each other, but somehow still feel mandatory?

To Iraqis, Blackwater “had power like Saddam Hussein” — and so did the US.

How Syria’s Yarmouk refugee camp became “the deepest circle of hell.”

Although it wasn’t an officially organized meeting, the encounter was still a fairly big deal in the context of US-Cuba relations.

There’s much more going on at the Summit of the Americas than an Obama-Castro meeting.

Putin’s propaganda war in Ukraine reaches a new low with a fake story about a dead child.

Don Draper can’t coast on looking the part forever. Nobody can.