The Soviet Union’s relationship with religion was tenuous at best. The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were devoted to Marxism, and would eventually become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and establish the U.S.S.R. in 1922. By area size, ...

Eastern Europe has been hit hard by inflation in the last year and a half, primarily due to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in February 2022. Since the start of the war, Europe as a whole has ...

I am a low-income, working-class student from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I grew up with divorced parents. My mother is an immigrant from Eastern Europe, and my father is from a small town in Oregon. When I was in high school, I ...

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022) overturned the abortion rights set by Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992). In its majority opinion in Dobbs, the Supreme Court stated that its ruling only affected abortion and ...

North Korea began the development of its nuclear program in the 1950s, and its first nuclear facility was built in the early 1980s. In December 1985, it signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), which is seen as fundamental to the ...

The Conference of Parties is the world’s largest climate conference. It has met once a year since 1995 when it was first held in Berlin, Germany. It was created by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as ...

North Korea is known for being an economically isolated country, a foreign policy pariah and the occasional subject of memes about its leader, Kim Jong Un. Beyond those impressions, the country has also been carrying out cyberattacks as an alternative ...

Hungary is a landlocked country uniquely positioned in Eastern Europe, with Ukraine to its East and six other countries bordering it.  The country is important to the European Union (EU) and the West — as well as to Russia, which ...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos pledged $1 billion in June 2020 to invest in the Amazon Rainforest through an initiative called The Agroforestry and Restoration Accelerator (AGA), which would attempt to remove carbon from the atmosphere and compensate landowners for not ...

Hungarian democracy is backsliding at an alarming rate. Since Prime Minister Viktor Orbán came into power in 2010 — having served nearly a decade earlier — he began what he called an “illiberal democracy.” According to Foreign Affairs contributor Fareed ...