Lee Hockstader

6 days ago | washingtonpost.com | Lee Hockstader

Russia’s war crimes are horrific. The victims deserve justice. (washingtonpost.com) Russia’s war crimes are horrific. The victims deserve justice. By Lee Hockstader 2025050811450200 STOCKHOLM — The suffocating stench of Russian war crimes in Ukraine — now classified as crimes against humanity by a United Nations-mandated commission — seeps from mountains of reports and journalism.

1 week ago | phillytrib.com | Lee Hockstader

BERLIN — President Donald Trump denounced Ukraine’s refusal to accept nearly all of the Kremlin’s war goals and reward Russia for its aggression, calling Kyiv’s stance “very harmful to Peace Negotiations.”One can only ask: What negotiations? Trump cannot have in mind the sort of hands-on, assiduous diplomacy that the United States orchestrated 30 years ago in ending Europe’s last great conflagration, the Bosnian war, which cost about 100,000 lives over three years.

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Lee Hockstader

Germany is in shock — and has a new ‘absolute priority’ (washingtonpost.com) Germany is in shock — and has a new ‘absolute priority’ By Lee Hockstader 2025050111551100 BERLIN — The sturdiest pillars of Germany's domestic and international identity have been pulverized with such dizzying speed over the past few weeks that millions of Germans must wake up these days wondering: Wait, what just happened?

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Lee Hockstader

BERLIN — President Donald Trump denounced Ukraine’s refusal to accept nearly all of the Kremlin’s war goals and reward Russia for its aggression, calling Kyiv’s stance “very harmful to Peace Negotiations.”One can only ask: What negotiations? Trump cannot have in mind the sort of hands-on, assiduous diplomacy that the United States orchestrated 30 years ago in ending Europe’s last great conflagration, the Bosnian war, which cost about 100,000 lives over three years.

2 weeks ago | phillytrib.com | Lee Hockstader

On a recent drive up New York’s Hudson Valley, I spent half a day at Hyde Park, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s imposing family home and the site of his presidential museum. It’s hard to imagine another place that provides a more immediate counterpoint to the moral decay into which President Donald Trump has plunged the country, or a more poignant contrast to the privations of the Trump White House. Roosevelt, of course, features prominently in any list of the handful of greatest American presidents.