AboutArticles by Trudy Rubin

Here is how Ukraine can still beat Russia

02 Jun 2025

When you read this, I will just have arrived at the Pearl of the Black Sea, as this historic, much beloved, multiethnic city was known in the peaceful days...

Trump’s cult of ignorance undermines policy at home

22 Apr 2025

Watching a video of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members lavishly praising him a week ago reminded me of the effusive earnestness of former Soviet politburo members toward their communist...

A Trump-backed ‘Russian peace’ would spell disaster

25 Feb 2025

Three years after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, it is clear who should win the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. That honour rightly belongs to Ukrainian President...

Ukraine’s volunteer spirit buoys its fight against Russia

19 Jun 2024

As evening falls, the streets are mostly dark in Ukraine’s capital. Russia has been systematically destroying the country’s national power grid as Western allies have dawdled over providing promised...

President Biden must make a decision on Ukraine

20 Mar 2023

As Russia’s war on Ukraine enters its second year, more and more Americans are asking when it will end. The morally correct response, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky insists,...

World has seen largest shifts in geopolitical power

07 Nov 2021

The world is changing faster than our sluggish political leaders — let alone the public — can manage. The COVID-19 virus and climate change move far more quickly than...

‘My soul is wounded and it will never heal!’

28 Aug 2021

In the wake of the suicide bombs at Kabul airport by Daesh terrorists, I must pay tribute to those Americans who have been helping to rescue endangered Afghans. That...

Afghan female activists on Taliban hit list need US help

07 Aug 2021

I wrote recently about an Afghan human rights activist who ran shelters for abused women but was forced by Taliban advances to flee her home. She is now in...

Much of the developing world struggles on vaccination as many Americans refuse to take the jab

31 Jul 2021

As the United States wrestles with how to curb the spread of the COVID-19 delta variant — and President Joe Biden launches a push to get federal workers vaccinated —...

A lesson for Americans from China’s shutdown of Hong Kong’s last pro-democracy newspaper

26 Jun 2021

As Senate Republicans were blocking a bill to expand voting rights for Americans, the Chinese government was destroying Apple Daily, the pro-democracy tabloid that campaigned for greater voting rights...

Trudy Rubin

Rubin is a foreign affairs columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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