U.S. warships, Russian warships, and the bold pirates of the Somali coast. We look at high stakes piracy on the high seas.
Comments [13]Beyond the “Russian Bear” cliches. We’ll talk with an architect of NATO’s expansion, and one of the policy’s top critics, about what Russia’s invasion of Georgia really means for the West.
Comments [44]As Russia rolled into Georgia, and the West struggled to respond, we looked at how the conflict exploded and what’s at stake in the Caucasus.
Comments [67]Russians went to the polls yesterday and handed Vladimir Putin’s party, United Russia, a landslide victory in the parliamentary elections. It came as no surprise — for weeks, election watchers have pointed to massive voter intimidation.
Putin, as he asserts his “moral authority” to lead Russia, may be an old-style Russian strong-man — but his grip [...]
Renowned historian Orlando Figes has shed fresh light on the darkest chapter of Russian history — the 25-year reign of Joseph Stalin, from the late 1920s to his death in 1953.
The Great Purge and the Gulag rank with the 20th century’s worst crimes. The numbers — the 700,000 shot in one year during the purge, [...]
Mike Huckabee joins us. We’ll get the Huckabee view of the GOP now, and the Republican Party in the Obama era.
After the terror in Mumbai, we look at what the bloody attacks mean for India, Pakistan, and the United States.
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British actor Michael Palin on how Monty Python came to be.
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Helene Cooper and her amazing story of privilege and flight from Africa in “The House at Sugar Beach.”
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