Even when applied with the best of intentions, labels can be confusing. At the start of Olivier Assayas’s “The Wizard of the Kremlin, ” a title card declares that, though the film is adapted from a no...
05.13.2026 Newyorker.comDwight D. Eisenhower As Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Eisenhower constantly employ his skills as coalition builder able to smooth over egos, challenge prejudices and balance priorities. He led t...
05.11.2026 History.com
This article is taken from the May 2026 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Get five issues for just £5 . T he American novelist Ben Lerner, still then young enough to be ...
05.11.2026 Thecritic.co.uk
Nathaniel Menday, the newly elected Reform UK councillor for Sheffield Woodhouse , has been suspended from the party over his history of white-supremacist social media posts. The far-right party is no...
05.14.2026 Thecanary.co
To be in Budapest last Sunday evening was to see history again being made on the Danube. As rapturous crowds gathered on the riverbank opposite the brightly illuminated parliament building, chanting “Ria-ria Hungaria! ” and “Hungary-Europe! ”, we all knew that the implications of the dramatic election victory for the Tisza party of Peter Magyar go far beyond this one central European country. The result is very good news for Ukraine and the EU. It’s correspondingly bad news for the Russian presi...
05.11.2026 Ecfr.eu
On April 20, 1945, Adolf Hitler observed his 56th, and last, birthday. There was little to celebrate. The so-called “Thousand Year Reich” was in its death throes after only 12. The Führer was also on ...
05.11.2026 Warfarehistorynetwork.com