Some of the most deplorable episodes in U.S. history involve the government wielding the power of the state against minority groups: Black people, Indigenous people and gay people, to name just a few.

Such an effort to concentrate authority in an all-controlling executive has a striking parallel in Europe: the remaking of Hungary under its longtime prime minister, Viktor Orban. Since coming to ...

Russia's deputy foreign minister says all of Vladimir Putin's conditions for peace must be met if the US wants to end the war in Ukraine. Adding to the growing frenzy of commentary on a peace deal ...

But Vladimir Putin wants Britain and France included in any talks, too. "The US is proposing a three-way talks format and we want a five-way format. We are going round in circles," he said.

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