In the May 31 edition of The Washington Post and op-ed by Leon Aron, director of Russian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute: “Putin silences the polls”. 'Putin’s war on Russian civil society continues'

In the same issue, an op-ed by columnist Anne Applebaum:  "Brazil, too modest for its own good"

In the May 25-26 edition of The Wall Street Journal, a book review by Christopher Bray: “When Stormtroopers Wore Brown”. The book is “Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-39” by Thomas Doherty, Columbia, $35, 429 pages