Protests in Russia over the weekend, after a rigged Parliamentary election that still saw Vladimir Putin’s party lose ground, has led to an additional challenge for Putin in next year’s Presidential race. Tens of thousands of Russians protested in Moscow and elsewhere over the weekend, the largest such demonstrations in 20 years, shouting “Putin is [...]

The Administration is calling it “New START,” with START standing for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, but it’s been a while since we had a treaty with a place name, and the President did sign this treaty today in the same city where he called for the abolition of nuclear weapons a year ago. So [...]