Armata T-14 program spotlights the flaws in Putin’s Russia. The tank was announced with great fanfare to the Russian public and paraded around and touted as the next generation of modern warfare and then it promptly stalled in the middle of the Moscow victory parade. Russian officials said the breakdown…

President Biden has unveiled the American Climate Corps, a new climate jobs training program that could put 20,000 people to work. My father was 102 at the time he proposed exactly the same thing; I suppose he was reliving his days in Roosevelt’s New Deal, so he knew that a…

And why the new strike on Russia’s Crimea naval base does not say: we don’t need help. Thus far the West has moved slowly to provide aid to Ukraine — often to the point of being accused of risking the survival of that nation. Yet Ukraine has rebounded from the…

A new nightmare for Putin. Detonations ripped through the night sky at a major Russian airbase near Moscow. When the smoke cleared the base was short two planes and a helicopter. The Russian security organization is sending investigative teams scrambling to find the saboteurs. While the loss is not by…

And it happened on ‘Zero Emissions Day!’ This morning my new solar panels sent their first surge of energy to the control panels in my house. The sun is now powering my home. The house uses a ground-source heat pump for warmth and air conditioning, so electricity now does…

Foremost author says full Ukrainian freedom is vital to world peace. “By international law Crimea is Ukraine…the idea that it was always Russian is only there because it was never Russian.” So says Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale Timothy Snyder, noted author and lecturer specializing in Eastern…

The wraiths of climate change — floods, winds and fires — have finally hit a major pain nerve in our economic system. The reaction is likely to trigger the kind of substantial reform that climate activists have been after for years. While protests have succeeded in spotlighting the environmental cause…

The Ukrainians have grabbed the Russians by the collar and they are not letting go. Ukrainian forces have just liberated Klishchiivka, south of Bakhmut, and are driving successful offensive operations elsewhere in the Bakhmut direction. This follows hard on the heels of its liberation of the village of Andriivka, about…

To update a phrase from Bismarck, Russia has the appetite of a jackal, only with rotten teeth. In his time, in the 1870’s, Bismark was actually referring to Italy as the skittish beast of prey. But the phrase fits Russia so well today — especially along its southern flank…that we…