Stephen Schlesinger

Mar 5, 2024 | thenation.com | Stephen Schlesinger

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Dec 9, 2023 | passblue.com | Stephen Schlesinger |Hasmik Egian |Mouin Rabbani |Dawn Clancy |Anastasiia Carrier |Banjo Damilola

I have long had conflicted feelings about the legacy of Henry Kissinger, who died on Nov. 29. I had known him since my college days. He was a colleague of my father, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., on the Harvard faculty. I took Kissinger's course on international relations. To my surprise, he occasionally used to invite me to his office, after his lectures, for a half-hour of talk. I found him engaging, charming, gossipy and relatively open. He disliked academia. He found it stultifying and parochial.

Jun 26, 2023 | passblue.com | Stephen Schlesinger |Marzia Babakarkhail |Richard Ponzio |Nudhara Yusuf |Banjo Damilola |Foteini Papagioti

It was all over in a day. The Wagner chieftain Yevgeny Prigozhin's rebellion against Vladmir Putin, over his dissatisfaction with the regular Russian army's failures in Ukraine, collapsed so quickly that the United Nations Security Council, the UN General Assembly and the UN secretary-general never even had time to issue statements on the crisis - although the latter did so on Sunday afternoon.

Apr 4, 2023 | passblue.com | Banjo Damilola |Stephen Schlesinger |Richard Ponzio |Dawn Clancy

Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia , described the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against President Vladimir Putin as "stupid." Nebenzia said this while taking questions from journalists during his briefing as rotating president of the Security Council, detailing Russia's signature events for April.

Mar 30, 2023 | passblue.com | Stephen Schlesinger |Moncef Khane |Anastasiia Carrier |Arthur Bassas |Hasmik Egian |Mouin Rabbani

After a year of the Ukrainian conflict, President Vladimir Putin remains in power in Russia.