Upon his inauguration as president, Donald Trump will become the leader of a United States executive branch mired in two major wars via its...

Politics tells fascinating, beautiful, ugly, incredible, and sometimes strange, if not unimaginable, stories. One such story is the rise of the...

By Osama Al-Sharif A pivotal moment could be close for the 14-month-old war on Gaza, which has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of...

By Steve Gutterman (RFE/RL) -- Vladimir Putin’s end-of-year Q&A session with reporters and the public is billed as a chance for Russian...

Apocalypse, now or later. Trump talks badly but acts well for Ukraine. Will Trump accept a ceasefire without security guarantees? If Putin dies...

By Todd Prince and Oleksiy Prodayvoda (RFE/RL) -- Pokrovsk once buzzed with life, but on this cold, snowy December day, it feels like a ghost...

As a candidate, Donald Trump campaigned — and won — this year on the promise he would lower prices for Americans angry after the COVID...

Donald Trump’s eyebrow-raising cabinet picks for his next administration came under criticism from anti-Trump conservative Tom Nichols, who remarked...

Liberals hate Trump, no question about it. He’s the definition of illiberal: authoritarian, racist, sexist, and downright nasty. Not only that,...

By Mike Eckel (RFE/RL) -- Behind closed doors in Moscow, Kyiv, Brussels, Washington, and other capitals, diplomats, elected leaders, and military...