Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster best known for his historic 1972 match against American Bobby Fischer, has passed ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88.

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Can talks between the US and Russia reach a lasting settlement over Ukraine? So far, argues historian Margaret MacMillan, the ...

President Donald Trump reacted to Russia's assault on Feb. 24, 2022 by declaring, "This is genius" and "pretty savvy." ...

President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy argued in the Oval Office in a stunning public display of devolving relations. Geoff Bennett discussed the developments with Timothy Snyder, one of ...

And his negotiations with President Trump about Ukraine are not just about Ukraine. Putin wants nothing less than to ...

A televised 1972 match between Spassky and Fischer, at the height of the Cold War, became an international sensation and was ...

Johan Grimonprez's film charts both the hopes and the tragedies of Africa's freedom movements in the shadow of the Cold War, ...

In Episode 1615 of #CutTheClutter, ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta discusses changing geopolitical dynamics—past, ...

A directive from Secretary of State Marco Rubio prompted the termination of IU’s Title VIII program, a research fellowship ...