2023
- 03. 01. 2023 In His Fight Against Democracy, Mexico’s President Is a Heavy Favorite (The Atlantic Column)
2022
2021
2020
- 07. 03. 2020 Trump Is Turning America into the ‘Shithole Country’ He Fears (Recent Articles, The Atlantic Column)
2019
- 10. 15. 2019 Slovakia’s President Suggests a Way Out of the World’s Populist Quagmire (The Washington Post Column)
- 09. 27. 2019 Americans spent decades discussing rule of law. Why would anyone believe us now? (The Washington Post Column)
- 09. 13. 2019 How tragic that a Republican president is undermining economic and political freedom (The Washington Post Column)
- 09. 06. 2019 The West has lost confidence in its values. Syria is paying the price. (The Washington Post Column)
- 09. 04. 2019 21 British Conservatives put country over party. Why can’t 21 Republicans do the same? (The Washington Post Column)
- 06. 28. 2019 Boris Johnson isn’t the cause of Britain’s unseriousness. He’s the product of it. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 06. 28. 2019 Putin’s attack on Western values was familiar. The American reaction was not. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 06. 13. 2019 Want to secretly, legally send money to Jared Kushner? Here’s how to do it. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 06. 07. 2019 If someone like Trump had been president in 1944, D-Day never would have happened (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 31. 2019 Britain is in crisis. So why is President Trump coming to visit? (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 27. 2019 Amid fractures, Europe is becoming a single political space (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 24. 2019 There’s no point in wishing luck to Theresa May’s successor (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 23. 2019 Yes, Europe’s far right is gaining strength. But so is the resistance. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 17. 2019 How Europe’s ‘Identitarians’ are mainstreaming racism (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 02. 2019 Want to build a far-right movement? Spain’s Vox party shows how. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 04. 19. 2019 Why was Trump so afraid of the Mueller investigation? We may never know. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 04. 12. 2019 Russia is cultivating Germany’s far right. Germans don’t seem to care. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 04. 05. 2019 Ukrainians are trying to figure out where the sitcom stops and the election begins (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 04. 02. 2019 Theresa May was warned about Brexit. She didn’t listen. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 03. 29. 2019 France’s yellow vests highlight a gap between policy and how it’s perceived (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 03. 25. 2019 The Mueller probe shows that our laws need fixing (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 03. 22. 2019 Theresa May isn’t the adult in the room. She’s part of the problem. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 03. 15. 2019 Radicalism kills. Why do we only care about one kind? (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 03. 12. 2019 Brexit has devastated Britain’s international reputation — and respect for its democracy (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 02. 28. 2019 Forget Hanoi. Trump has already done irreparable damage to America’s reputation. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 02. 17. 2019 An off-key Pence sings from the Trump hymnal to a stony European reception (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 02. 11. 2019 It’s not xenophobia that links the ‘new populists.’ It’s hypocrisy. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 02. 08. 2019 The new censors won’t delete your words — they’ll drown them out (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 02. 01. 2019 Regulate social media now. The future of democracy is at stake. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 01. 29. 2019 Venezuela is how ‘illiberal democracy’ ends (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 01. 24. 2019 A crisis of conservatism creates gridlock on both sides of the Atlantic (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 01. 15. 2019 Theresa May experiences a historic parliamentary humiliation (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 01. 15. 2019 In the wake of a political murder, the hate campaign continues (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 01. 13. 2019 The anti-Europeans have a plan for crippling the European Union (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 01. 13. 2019 The Trump-Putin revelations tell us what we knew all along (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 01. 04. 2019 Why the world should be paying attention to Putin’s plans for Belarus (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
2018
- 12. 21. 2018 The lure of chaos is leading Britain straight into the abyss (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 12. 12. 2018 The Brexiteers have failed — so they blame Theresa May (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 12. 07. 2018 Hungary is thumbing its nose at the U.S. — by following Trump’s cues (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 12. 02. 2018 The democratic world could feel the heat from Paris (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 11. 26. 2018 Russia’s latest attack on the Ukrainians is a warning to the West (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 11. 23. 2018 Iran’s regime could fall apart. What happens then? (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 11. 15. 2018 Theresa May’s Brexit deal gives everyone something to hate (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 11. 12. 2018 A not-so-fond farewell to Dana Rohrabacher, Putin’s best friend in Congress (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 11. 11. 2018 A bittersweet commemoration exposes ominous rifts in our new world order (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 11. 09. 2018 Trump campaigned to protect himself, not help Republicans (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 11. 02. 2018 We have learned a lot about online disinformation — and we are doing nothing (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 10. 30. 2018 We must fight harder against homegrown terrorism. But it won’t happen under Trump. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 10. 26. 2018 Stop helping demagogues change the subject (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 10. 19. 2018 In Poland, another blow to the Catholic Church (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 10. 17. 2018 Saudi Arabia’s information war to bury news of Jamal Khashoggi (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column, Uncategorized)
- 10. 14. 2018 This is why so many journalists are at risk today (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 10. 08. 2018 It’s official: Americans are living under the rule of a minority (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 10. 05. 2018 Russian hackers were caught in the act — and the results are devastating (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 10. 01. 2018 Trump’s new NAFTA is pretty much the same as the old one — but at what cost? (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 09. 27. 2018 Trump’s U.N. speech was funny. His worldview is even funnier. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 07. 12. 2018 Europe needs to start planning for a future with no U.S. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 07. 09. 2018 Brexit turned out to be harder than they thought — so the Brexiteers are quitting (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 07. 06. 2018 Trump is hinting at concessions to Putin. So what do we get back? (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 06. 29. 2018 Greece offers a glimpse of life after populism (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 06. 22. 2018 The dark history behind Trump’s inflammatory language (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 06. 15. 2018 This is how Putin buys influence in the West (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 06. 08. 2018 NATO is once again practicing for the worst (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 06. 04. 2018 Trump’s ambassador to Germany is sabotaging the Atlantic alliance (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 31. 2018 Ukraine’s government just faked a journalist’s death. Will it be worth the cost? (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 29. 2018 Ireland’s abortion referendum reminds us that history is never written in stone (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 25. 2018 Trump’s actions on North Korea have consequences. Here’s a list of them. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 24. 2018 Zuckerberg’s visit to Brussels shows European politicians also have no clue about social media (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 18. 2018 Watch what happens in Rome. It could be our post-Trump future. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 14. 2018 Let us hope John McCain’s vision of America long outlasts him (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 11. 2018 Trump has put America in the worst of all possible worlds (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 01. 2018 In Trump’s White House, foreign policy is now made on a whim (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 04. 26. 2018 People power worked in Armenia. It won’t work everywhere. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 04. 25. 2018 Macron embraces Trump — and elegantly knifes him in the back (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 04. 20. 2018 There are many ways for democracy to fail (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 04. 13. 2018 Russia is lying about Syria. But Trump has no credibility to counter it. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 04. 10. 2018 Facebook makes the Snowden affair look quaint (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 04. 01. 2018 The strange tale of the man who pretended to be a Trump representative (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 03. 30. 2018 Ominous cracks show in the West’s united front against Russia (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 03. 23. 2018 First Russia unleashed a nerve agent. Now it’s unleashing its lie machine. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 03. 20. 2018 Does Cambridge Analytica have my data? I have no idea. That’s the problem. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 03. 16. 2018 Why does Putin treat Britain with disdain? He thinks he’s bought it. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 03. 06. 2018 Can Italy’s Five Star Movement turn online passions into real-world policies? (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 03. 02. 2018 In Europe, political parties would rather stay out of power (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 02. 25. 2018 America doesn’t need Russia to ruin democracy. It can do it itself. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 02. 16. 2018 After the Parkland shooting, pro-Russian bots are pushing false-flag allegations again (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 02. 13. 2018 A Russian dissident pulls off a virtuoso trolling of the Putin regime (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 02. 09. 2018 In Britain, the specter of anti-Semitism returns (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 02. 02. 2018 The stupidity and unenforceability of Poland’s speech law (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 01. 29. 2018 The Czech election says more about the state of Western democracy than we’d like to admit (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 01. 26. 2018 ‘Since the violence ended’: Peace, even if imperfect, comes to Colombia (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 01. 18. 2018 Russia finds young men who love guns — and grooms them (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 01. 11. 2018 The America Europe needs right now is missing (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 01. 09. 2018 The ‘Oprah in 2020’ talk is proof of our democracy’s degradation (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 01. 09. 2018 The ‘Oprah in 2020’ talk is proof of our democracy’s degradation (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 01. 05. 2018 The Trumps and Kushners may spell the end of the Wilsonian world (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
2017
- 12. 21. 2017 Poland is illegally dismantling its own constitution. Can the E.U. do anything? (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 12. 11. 2017 The Polish government is cracking down on private media — in the name of combating ‘fake news’ (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 12. 08. 2017 Brexit has brought the Irish problem back (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 11. 24. 2017 Ukrainians are unsatisfied with their revolution. Maybe they’re right. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 11. 17. 2017 Zimbabwe’s coup can’t just end with another strongman (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 11. 13. 2017 Why neo-fascists are making a shocking surge in Poland (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 11. 06. 2017 100 years later, Bolshevism is back. And we should be worried. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 11. 03. 2017 Totalitarian ideologies never die. Not even in America. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 10. 30. 2017 Did Russia teach Paul Manafort all its dirty tricks? (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 10. 27. 2017 Russia is furious. That means the sanctions are working. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 10. 20. 2017 Why does Putin want to control Ukraine? Ask Stalin. (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 10. 20. 2017 There might be one good thing about a hard Brexit after all (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 10. 15. 2017 If Russia can create fake ‘Black Lives Matter’ accounts, who will next? (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 10. 03. 2017 Las Vegas and the Catalan referendum are fresh fodder for Julian Assange and other Internet demagogues (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 09. 28. 2017 A Brit’s speech in an American election takes a Stalinist turn (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 09. 24. 2017 Germany’s election gives the country a reality check (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 09. 22. 2017 Aung San Suu Kyi’s fall from the pedestal is an old story (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 09. 15. 2017 Merkel can’t ignore the far-right echo chamber (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 09. 08. 2017 All the worst lies about Brexit are about to be revealed (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 09. 08. 2017 The case for Trump-Russia collusion: We’re getting very, very close (Recent Articles, The Washington Post Column)
- 08. 25. 2017 Ukraine has finally removed all 1,320 Lenin statues. Our turn. (The Washington Post Column)
- 08. 21. 2017 After Barcelona, a new message for the terrorists — and politicians — who exploit fear (The Washington Post Column)
- 08. 17. 2017 Beware: Trump may use the alt-right to turn himself into the center (The Washington Post Column)
- 08. 04. 2017 If this were the Cold War, America would be poised to lose (The Washington Post Column)
- 07. 24. 2017 Poles fought the nationalist government with mass protests — and won (The Washington Post Column)
- 06. 29. 2017 How U.S. presidents missed the Russia threat — until it was much, much too late (The Washington Post Column)
- 06. 20. 2017 The Grenfell Tower disaster gives Britain’s ‘bonfire of regulations’ a whole new meaning (The Washington Post Column)
- 06. 16. 2017 Everyone said Old Europe was dying. Sure doesn’t look like it now. (The Washington Post Column)
- 06. 02. 2017 Politics is a joke, and that might be what’s keeping us sane (The Washington Post Column)
- 06. 02. 2017 Theresa May won’t get a landslide. Beyond that, the British election is hard to predict. (The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 24. 2017 There is no one right way to react to terror. There is a wrong way. (The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 11. 2017 Don’t forget those smiling images of Trump and the Russians (The Washington Post Column)
- 04. 27. 2017 Ivanka Trump’s White House role is a symbol of democratic decline (The Washington Post Column)
- 04. 14. 2017 Yes, Rex Tillerson, U.S. taxpayers should care about Ukraine. Here’s why. (The Washington Post Column)
- 04. 03. 2017 Amid Brexit, British citizens are suddenly gripped by nostalgia (The Washington Post Column)
- 03. 31. 2017 Every day a new Russian revelation. That’s not as bizarre as it sounds. (The Washington Post Column)
- 02. 08. 2017 “What happens to us?” Why Sweden is so worried about the Trump administration (The Washington Post Column)
- 01. 13. 2017 Stop obsessing over ‘secrets’ about Trump and Russia. What we already know is bad enough. (The Washington Post Column)
2016
- 12. 20. 2016 I was a victim of a Russian smear campaign. I understand the power of fake news. (The Washington Post Column)
- 12. 09. 2016 What ‘cheese pizza’ means to the Internet’s conspiracy-mongers (The Washington Post Column)
- 11. 26. 2016 A hope that Castro’s death allows Cubans to finally confront their tragic past (The Washington Post Column)
- 11. 04. 2016 Trump is a threat to the West as we know it, even if he loses (The Washington Post Column)
- 07. 25. 2016 Connecting the dots: How Russia benefits from the DNC email leak (The Washington Post Column)
- 07. 14. 2016 New cabinet may signal Britain’s retreat as a Western power (The Washington Post Column)
- 06. 01. 2016 Brace yourself for another wave of drowning refugees — unless Europe takes action (The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 23. 2016 The rise of national socialism: Why Austria’s revolution is not over (The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 13. 2016 How the U.S. and Britain help kleptocracies around the world — and how we pay the price as well (The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 04. 2016 The ‘Trump effect’ will help authoritarians around the world (The Washington Post Column)
- 04. 08. 2016 The Dutch just showed the world how Russia influences Western European elections (The Washington Post Column)
- 03. 22. 2016 After Brussels, the West must reject dangerous isolationism (The Washington Post Column)
- 03. 17. 2016 The headlines are wrong: Angela Merkel’s rule is not in doubt (The Washington Post Column)
- 02. 18. 2016 Why Americans Believe Donald Trump’s Worst Conspiracy Theories (The Washington Post Column)
2015
- 12. 10. 2015 Mark Zuckerberg should spend $45 billion on undoing Facebook’s damage to democracies (The Washington Post Column)
- 08. 21. 2015 Donald Trump: Spokesman for birthers, truthers, and Internet trolls (The Washington Post Column)
- 08. 06. 2015 Robert Conquest and the need for the courage to illuminate the truth (The Washington Post Column)
- 07. 24. 2015 Helping Russia’s sidelined and exiled journalists tell their stories (The Washington Post Column)
- 04. 16. 2015 When it comes to politics, the U.S. and Britain could learn from each other (The Washington Post Column)
- 02. 20. 2015 The risks of putting Germany front and center in Europe’s crises (The Washington Post Column)
2014
- 10. 03. 2014 China’s explanation for the Hong Kong protests? Blame America. (The Washington Post Column)
- 07. 18. 2014 The Malaysia Airlines crash is the end of Russia’s fairy tale (The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 16. 2014 Developing nations could benefit from trying Southern democracy (The Washington Post Column)
- 03. 07. 2014 Russia’s information warriors are on the march – we must respond (Articles, Recent Articles)
2013
- 12. 07. 2013 Mandela’s death marks a time of reckoning for South Africa’s ANC (The Washington Post Column)
- 11. 14. 2013 Aid after typhoon in Philippines shows the politics of generosity (The Washington Post Column)
- 10. 17. 2013 Iran’s spots haven’t changed, whatever it tells negotiators (The Washington Post Column)
- 09. 14. 2013 Time for our leaders to stop talking about ‘justice’ in Syria if we can’t or won’t enforce it (Recent Articles)
- 07. 13. 2013 Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, historian and survivor of Stalin’s gulag, dies at 93 (The Washington Post Column)
- 04. 08. 2013 To Americans, Margaret Thatcher stood for free markets and free people (Articles, Recent Articles)
2012
- 12. 14. 2012 The anti-corruption movement: Human rights’ natural partner (The Washington Post Column)
- 11. 11. 2012 US election 2012: Why ‘leading from behind’ might not be the best way to take American forward (Recent Articles)
- 09. 12. 2012 US Election 2012: Mitt Romney and Barack Obama – the upside-down election (Recent Articles)
- 06. 13. 2012 Euro 2012, Olympics are expensive ways to boost Europe’s mood (The Washington Post Column)
2011
- 11. 14. 2011 Why Berlusconi’s reign should be a lesson to revolutionaries everywhere (The Washington Post Column)
- 10. 18. 2011 What the Occupy protests tell us about the limits of democracy (The Washington Post Column)
- 05. 02. 2011 Bin Laden killed: For a day or two, we’ll feel like the United States of America again (Recent Articles)
- 04. 05. 2011 Why has the State Department run into a firewall on Internet freedom? (The Washington Post Column)
- 02. 14. 2011 Channeling Egypt’s energy of the crowd into positive change (The Washington Post Column)
- 02. 08. 2011 For Rice and Clinton, Middle East words that did not match deeds (The Washington Post Column)
- 01. 17. 2011 Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution might not install a democracy (The Washington Post Column)
2010
- 12. 07. 2010 Why the WikiLeaks cables aren’t as threatening as advertised (The Washington Post Column)
- 11. 30. 2010 In seeking ‘free speech,’ Wikileaks strikes a blow against honest speech (The Washington Post Column)
- 09. 21. 2010 Anger over papal visit shows religious freedom is alive and well in Britain (The Washington Post Column)
- 08. 10. 2010 Tom Sawyer and today’s children: Same behavior, different treatment (The Washington Post Column)
- 07. 29. 2010 Wikileaks busts myth about the irrelevance of mainstream media (The Washington Post Column)
- 07. 13. 2010 Bettencourt scandal engulfs Sarkozy, regardless of guilt or innocence (The Washington Post Column)
- 07. 03. 2010 Polish presidential election: a welcome end to a strange campaign (Articles, Recent Articles)
- 05. 18. 2010 Somali pirates meet the law Captured Somali pirates cause a legal dilemma (The Washington Post Column)
- 04. 18. 2010 Polish plane crash: country has shown resilience since President Kaczynski’s death (Recent Articles)
2009
- 01. 21. 2009 President Barack Obama reaches out to all nations with vow to ‘remake America’ (Recent Articles)
2008
- 06. 10. 2008 Whose Race Problem?: Lots of Americans Accept Obama. But Will the World? (The Washington Post Column)
- 06. 06. 2008 John McCain and Barack Obama have much in common in presidential race (Recent Articles)
2007
- 02. 04. 2007 The Fight for Muslim Women: A feisty memoir from a controversial champion of female rights. (The Washington Post Column)
- 01. 16. 2007 Ending an Opium War: Poppies and Afghan Recovery Can Both Bloom (The Washington Post Column)
- 01. 09. 2007 Hussein in His Place: The Dictator’s Regime, and the West’s Misreading of It, Followed a Familiar Pattern (The Washington Post Column)
2006
- 09. 23. 2006 “Kein Papst-Wort kommt an das Gift heran, das aus den Mündern radikaler Imame spritzt” (Auf Deutsch)
- 09. 17. 2006 A great historian offers a memoir about a life marked by the shadow of Nazism. (The Washington Post Column)
- 09. 14. 2006 Die Macht der Fußballfans: Spontane Krawalle nach der verlorenen WM 1954 als Vorboten des Ungarn-Aufstands (Auf Deutsch)
- 05. 17. 2006 Why Does the Motherhood Debate Turn Into a Caricature-Building Exercise? (The Washington Post Column)
2005
2004
2003
- 03. 31. 2003 Speech Lessons: What Khrushchev’s famous “secret speech” can tell us about regime change. (Book Reviews, On Communism)
- 02. 26. 2003 Yankees, Come Here: Rumor has it Americans are welcome in Eastern Europe. (The Washington Post Column)
2002
- 08. 08. 2002 Iraqniphobia: If he wants European support for attacking Saddam, Bush must present his case. (The Washington Post Column)