- #324: Ukraine Is Fighting Corruption: Our Support Is More Important Than Ever (11/16/2025)
- #320: Peace Without Cease-Fire Makes No Sense (10/27/2025)
- #314: Preserve Your Democracy. A Conversation with Konstantin Samoilov (10/2/2025)
- #304: Challenging the West? The 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Summit in Tianjin (9/4/2025)
- #302: Can Ukraine Just Give Up? (8/31/2025)
- #301: Does Putin Love Russia? (8/31/2025)
- #299: Democracy Beats Dictatorship Anytime (8/27/2025)
- #298: Ukraine Can and Will Win. Why and How? (8/27/2025)
- #297: Europe Must Step Up to Support Ukraine (8/22/2025)
- #296: Putin’s Mistakes (8/20/2025)
- #295: Trump Met Putin – The Aftermath (8/15/2025)
- #292: Trump Meets Putin: What to Expect? (8/14/2025)
- #291: Whenever You Negotiate, You Need to Know the Details. (8/11/2025)
- #290: On Criticism vs. Hate (8/6/2025)
- #288: On Russophobia (7/31/2025)
- #285: Ukraine Is Not Perfect,But Still Deserves Our Support (7/25/2025)
- #284: Ukrainian Democracy Lives (7/24/2025)
- #278: We Hate Everyone: Against the Politics of Vitriol (6/24/2025)
- #274: The Root Cause of the Russian-Ukrainian War (5/12/2025)
- #273: Peace Needs Justice: It Matters How to Make Peace in Ukraine (4/24/2025)
- #272: Is This All a Brilliant Plan? (3/4/2025)
- #271: Does Zelenskyy Want Peace? (3/3/2025)
- #270: Our Soft Power and Reputation Are at Stake with Ukraine (2/22/2025)
- #269: Trump’s Toxic Negotiation Style Echoes Putin’s Propaganda (2/19/2025)
- #268: Peace in Ukraine – Trying to Stay Calm and Carry On (2/19/2025)
- #267: Are the United States Abandoning Europe? (2/14/2025)
- #265: Ukraine Wants Peace and Russia Must Lose (12/16/2024)
- #264: Freedom from Assad (12/8/2024)
- #263: Don’t Believe Putin’s Lies. He Can (and Must) Be Defeated (11/25/2024)
- #262: Defeating Russia is the Path to Make America Great Again (11/17/2024)
- #261: If You Govern Against the People, You Will Fail (11/8/2024)
- #258: Ukraine Must Win. Understanding Russia’s Imperial Ambitions in Ukraine (9/24/2024)
- #255: Reflections on Recent Developments in the War Against Ukraine (6/20/2024)
- #247: Politics After Resentment (2/25/2024)
- #245: Tucker Carlson Reveals Putin’s Fear and Delusion (2/9/2024)
- #244: When Aliens Attack, What Will We Do? Reflections on Western Hesitancy in the Face of Russian Aggression (2/9/2024)
- #242: On the Difference between Opposition and an Anti-Democratic Stance (1/28/2024)
- #241: The War Against Israel (12/5/2023)
- #239: Is History Helpful for Solving Conflicts? (11/12/2023)
- #235: Rumors of Putin’s Death (10/29/2023)
- #229: Fighting for Love in Times of War (10/9/2023)
- #227: Whatever Your Politics, There is No Reason to Support Putin (10/7/2023)
- #226: We Must Not Give Up on Global Democracy (10/6/2023)
- #223: Should Ukraine Be More Thankful and Less Demanding? (8/10/2023)
- #221: Does Putin Want to Negotiate? (7/29/2023)
- #220: Russia’s Only Interests Are Terror and Destruction. It Must Be Defeated (7/1/2023)
- #219: Some Reflections on Fukuyama and the End of History (6/24/2023)
- #218: The West Is Not in Decline (6/20/2023)
- #208: The Perversion of Everything Russian: From Leningrad to Mariupol (3/27/2023)
- #207: Democracy Only Works with a Strong Separation of Powers (2/14/2023)
- #205: If You Want Peace: Why We Must Help Ukraine (1/16/2023)
- #204: Poem: Путин, идиот (Putin, You Idiot) (12/28/2022)
- #198: LGBTQ Rights are Human Rights (11/21/2022)
- #197: We Have Good Reasons for Hope (11/8/2022)
- #195: Fake “Referenda” Prove that Putin Doesn’t Want to Negotiate (9/25/2022)
- #191: Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev (8/30/2022)
- #190: On the Ability of Russians to Suffer their Government (8/27/2022)
- #189: Soviet Monuments Need To Go (8/27/2022)
- #188: What Is “The West” Today? From “Civilization” to Cooperation (8/27/2022)
- #183: What Are Russians Thinking? (7/31/2022)
- #181: Are We too Stupid for the Internet? (7/30/2022)
- #178: Russia Deserves Better (7/14/2022)
- #174: Climate Change Can Only Be Countered With Technological Innovation (7/9/2022)
- #173: Putin and Lavrov Demonstrate the Weakness of Today’s Russia (7/9/2022)
- #170: Sanctions Against Russia Are Working – And Need to Be Even Stronger (6/21/2022)
- #169: What Russia Claims to Want Is Irrelevant Now (6/7/2022)
- #168: Why Must Ukraine Win? (6/6/2022)
- #166: Reflections on Memorial Day (5/31/2022)
- #165: Realpolitik Is About Appeasing Power, not Reality or Morality (5/26/2022)
- #164: The Answer to Death is Life (5/25/2022)
- #163: Putin’s Russia Celebrates Its Own Fascism (5/8/2022)
- #160: Victim Blaming Par Excellence: Russia Complains About Those Helping Ukraine (4/21/2022)
- #159: Stop the Ukrainian Genocide (4/6/2022)
- #158: Russia’s Entire “Special Operation” Is a War Crime (3/18/2022)
- #157: Liars Lie. Stop Believing Putin and Lavrov (3/17/2022)
- #155: Dear Russia: Make It Stop (3/12/2022)
- #154: Against Putin: Yes. Against Russia: No. (3/7/2022)
- #153: The Monstrosity of Vladimir Putin: We Have Learned Nothing From History (3/4/2022)
- #152: Democracy vs. Tyranny, or: How Does It Feel to Live in a Dictatorship? (3/2/2022)
- #151: Putin Is a Fascist per Definition (3/2/2022)
- #149: As Putin Is Orchestrating to Commit Genocide… (3/1/2022)
- #148: Putin Does Not Care About Russia. It’s a Russian Leader’s Tradition (2/28/2022)
- #147: Why Should We Care About Ukraine? A Pragmatic Answer (2/27/2022)
- #146: The Fall of the Soviet Union Was the Greatest Event of the Late 20th Century (2/27/2022)
- #145: Putin Has Never Been Threatened By NATO (2/27/2022)
- #144: Putin’s War Against Ukraine Is a War Against All of Us (2/24/2022)
- #143: The Madness of the Czar: Putin’s Incoherent Speech (2/22/2022)
- #138: The West Is not Weak, But It Has Lacked Commitment (2/14/2022)
- #136: Is Putin the Aggressor? (2/5/2022)
- #131: Please Stop this Fascination with End-Times Rhetoric (1/26/2022)
- #130: German Hypocrisy: How to Claim to be a Moral Leader While Acting Like an International Free-Loader. A Polemic (1/25/2022)
- #128: Russia Is Part of the West (1/19/2022)
- #126: NATO Is Not Threatening Russia, and Putin Knows It. Some Thoughts on Solutions. (1/17/2022)
- #124: Happy New Year 2022! (1/6/2022)
- #83: The Purpose of History, or, We Need to Explain Democracy Better (3/28/2021)
- #75: There Are No “Internal Matters” (2/9/2021)
- #72: Can We Trust The Media? (1/28/2021)
- #69: No, American Democracy Is Not Dead (1/8/2021)
- #68: We Do Not Need Enemies (1/3/2021)
- #11: Authoritarian Governments Must Lie, and Democracies are Grown-Up Systems (3/24/2020)
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