Leonid Bershidsky

People hold banners during a protest against the detention of Belarusian journalist Raman Pratasevich in front of the European Commission representative office on May 24, 2021, in Warsaw, Poland.

Op-ed: Belarus president’s air piracy has no Western precedent

May 26, 2021 at 8:52 p.m.

The double standards defense is the Kremlin's go-to device whenever it's accused of wrongdoing: "You Westerners have no moral right to point fingers because you do it too." It's telling...

A study found that open-plan workplaces may actually discourage face-to-face interaction.

Open-plan offices are making us less social

May 31, 2019 at 9:20 p.m.

In recent years, a number of big companies — IBM, Bank of America, Aetna, Yahoo under former CEO Marissa Mayer — cut back on their telecommuting programs in the name...

Mourning the unconstrained mind of Stephen Hawking

May 31, 2019 at 9:23 p.m.

In “Professor Dowell’s Head,” a 1925 science fiction novel by Alexander Belyayev that was a must-read when I was a kid, a dying scientist bequeaths his body to a colleague...

Maybe the free world doesn’t need a leader

May 31, 2019 at 9:21 p.m.

Who is the leader of the free world? Important as the question sounds, I'm beginning to wonder if it's better left unanswered. The U.S. president is no longer the obvious...

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses participants of the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students, during the official closing ceremony in Sochi's Olympic Park in Sochi, Russia, on Oct. 21, 2017.

Putin spins a tale of Russian humiliation

May 31, 2019 at 9:15 p.m.

For years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been building a narrative of a Russia that was wronged and humiliated by the U.S. until it decided to push back. In his...

NATO’s build-up in the Baltics is unnecessary

June 10, 2018 at 8:04 p.m.

While showing off some new UAZ Patriot pickup trucks armed with machine guns and grenade launchers to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, a general couldn't open the door of...

An MIT study found online savings of products consumers can buy in stores might not be as much as shoppers think.

Shopping online may not save you anything

June 12, 2018 at 7:07 a.m.

You find lower prices online than at bricks-and-mortar stores, right? Wrong. Alberto Cavallo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology displayed resourcefulness and ingenuity by producing a wide-scale international comparison of...

Lawsuit could scare VW out of the U.S.

June 9, 2018 at 7:32 a.m.

The U.S. government's lawsuit against Volkswagen threatens the German automaker with such heavy penalties that, in hindsight, it may not have been worth it for VW to be present in...

Nigeria's Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and President of the OPEC Conference Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu (L) and OPEC's Secretary General Abdalla Salem El-Badri of Libya attend a news conference after a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, at OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria on December 4, 2015.

OPEC fights to stay relevant in the market

June 16, 2018 at 3:25 p.m.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has moved to raise its output ceiling, a year after it decided to take on upstart U.S. shale oil producers by keeping output steady...

Russia is hacking your social media news feed

August 21, 2019 at 10:30 p.m.

Now that most of our information -- and the information that news organizations use as raw material -- is delivered by technology platforms such as social networks, what we know...

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