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1 week ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Lee Hockstader
In Poland’s golden hour, a looming threat to Europe’s unity (washingtonpost.com) In Poland’s golden hour, a looming threat to Europe’s unity By Lee Hockstader 2025053012004200 KRAKOW, Poland — In this golden moment of Polish history, why do so many Poles see the future as fraught, grim, even dangerous?
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1 week ago | 
jhnewsandguide.com | Lee Hockstader
There are plenty of unhappy shocks these days for an American who visits the United States after years spent in Europe. But few compare to the jaw-dropping misery I saw last week in the addiction-ravaged wasteland of Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood. I went with friends, longtime Philadelphians who know the city well and who warned me that Kensington, for years one of the country’s most notorious open-air drug dens, was a rough place.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Lee Hockstader
Europe has so far dodged a U.S.-style opioid epidemic. Here’s why. (washingtonpost.com) Europe has so far dodged a U.S.-style opioid epidemic. Here’s why. By Lee Hockstader 2025052212203200 PARIS — There are plenty of unhappy shocks these days for an American who visits the United States after years spent in Europe. But few compare to the jaw-dropping misery I saw last week in the addiction-ravaged wasteland of Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood.
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3 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Lee Hockstader
Europe’s military buildup: A breakneck race that’s not fast enough (washingtonpost.com) Europe’s military buildup: A breakneck race that’s not fast enough By Lee Hockstader 2025051412324700 STOCKHOLM — Europe's race to rearm is accelerating at warp speed — and not nearly fast enough.
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3 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Lee Hockstader
Lee Hockstader: Any US-brokered ‘peace deal’ must not allow Russia to escape accountability for war crimesThere are growing fears that a Trump deal would enable Putin to harvest the fruits of his aggressionAn explosion from a ballistic missile lights up the sky over the city during a Russian missile and drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine last month.
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4 weeks 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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?
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
