In the 1990s, the Clintons tried to help African American families get on a sustainable path to a middle class existence. A new study suggests the experiment has failed.

It’s far too soon to call the project dead, as Gazprom defiantly says it will forge on alone.

What could have triggered a trusted ally’s fall from grace? Putin’s paranoid fear of revolutions, heightened after the Turkish coup, is probably a large part of the answer.

With the Balkan migrant corridor permanently closed, this is decent politics: the Chancellor gets to have her cake and eat it too.

Rumors swirl about forces trying to discredit Russia’s Prime Minister. It could be Kudrin, it could be the opposition—or it could be just a ploy to keep the people laughing.

Turkey’s Foreign Minister talks a big game about rapprochement with Russia. But the devil is in the implementation details.

With tensions rising, Putin appears to want to scrap Minsk 2 and work out a plan for Ukraine directly with the West, without Kyiv present at the talks.

But this doesn’t mean the meeting was a failure. Far from it.

African development, which is real in both economic and social terms, is a much more explosive and destabilizing process than Afro-optimists understand.

But when it comes to this year’s election, Hillary Clinton may be the more authentically “Republican” candidate—even in the Kremlin’s eyes.