Three years since the annexation of Crimea, Russia's expansionist project has failed. But the West has nothing to congratulate itself on.

It is easy to see the short-term imperative of the deal agreed in Minsk on Feb. 12 for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko: His troops have been...

Russia should not gloat over the recent revelations of CIA torture, but must think about its own international obligations to prevent similar practices...

Rodion Raskolnikov, the protagonist of Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment," murders an old woman and her sister, believing that an extraordinary...