The Compass

The Kremlin’s spiritual phishing

  • October 31, 2025
  • Andrei Kordochkin

Click on ‘traditional values’ and get kidnapping, torture, murder

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Defending our ideals in the face of adversity

  • October 14, 2025
  • Suren Avanesyan

Democracy is about our rights.

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Lessons from the post-WWII refugee crisis

  • October 1, 2025
  • Dmitry Kharitonov

Sheila Fitzpatrick discusses her new book about the mass resettlement of displaced Soviets.

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After war with Israel, will Iranians support their regime?

  • September 9, 2025
  • Barry Rosen

Both nationalism and resistance are surging. Which will endure?

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A forgotten vision for Middle East peace

  • September 3, 2025
  • Daniel Warner

In 1919, the King-Crane Commission on the defunct Ottoman Empire issued a report one historian called ‘one of the great suppressed documents of the peacemaking era.’

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The ‘Switzerland of the Caucasus’

  • August 21, 2025
  • Aron Ouzilevski

A weekend in Dilijan, Armenia.

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Dreams come back to haunt us

  • August 21, 2025
  • Polina Barskova

A new translation reflects how people under authoritarianism process reality.

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‘Prolonging the life of this bizarre case’

  • August 7, 2025
  • Robert Coalson

Persistent echoes of the Scopes ‘monkey trial.'

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Edward R. Murrow, a journalist of a different era

  • August 1, 2025
  • Marvin Kalb

Who will stand up for the truth in our time?

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Going toe to toe with ‘vandals and demagogues’

  • July 23, 2025
  • Robert Coalson

A conversation with Jeffrey Gedmin.

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