Hang up the magical thinking and try strategic empathy on for size
The US approach to Russia hasn’t been working for years, mostly because it’s been spearheaded by alarmists in the blob.
Katrina vanden Heuvel is editorial director and publisher of The Nation. She served as editor of the magazine from 1995 to 2019. She writes a weekly column for The Washington Post and is Vice-President of the American Committee for U.S.-Russia Accord. A frequent commentator on U.S. and international politics for ABC, MSNBC, CNN, and PBS, her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. Vanden Heuvel is also the author of several books, including The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama, and co-author (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev’s Reformers.
The US approach to Russia hasn’t been working for years, mostly because it’s been spearheaded by alarmists in the blob.
The late professor launched the first incarnation in 1974. A year after his death, his wife and colleagues are pressing forward under new name.