Richard Stengel

Stengel is the former Editor of TIME and an MSNBC analyst.

Recent Articles

The Bountiful Life of Vartan Gregorian

Vartan Gregorian was born in the ancient city of Tabriz in northern Iran. In his lovely autobiography, The Road to Home, Vartan notes that some archeologists believe that the historical location of the Garden of...

By Richard Stengel April 22, 2021

Armed Right-Wing Groups Aren’t ‘Militias’—We Need to Stop Calling Them That

Over the last month, ever since the indictment of 13 men for plotting to kidnap the governor of Michigan, the word “militia” has appeared in thousands of newspaper headlines and TV news reports. The Detroit...

By Richard Stengel October 30, 2020

What We Can Learn From Nelson Mandela Today

When Nelson Mandela became the first democratically elected president in South African history in 1994, the world looked like a very different place. His election was a symbol of a new birth of freedom around...

By Richard Stengel July 30, 2020

Domestic Disinformation Is a Growing Menace

We’ve become so familiar with the idea that during the 2016 election thousands of Russian trolls—with very poor grammar—pretended to be Republican voters in Tennessee, Black activists in Michigan, and Trump supporters in Palm Beach...

By Richard Stengel July 3, 2020

The Pandemic Can Lead Us to a Smarter Future

In the days and weeks after 9/11, walking around midtown Manhattan felt like a small act of resilience. You didn’t know if more attacks were coming. Every car and truck was a possible bomb. You...

By Richard Stengel May 11, 2020

We're In the Middle of a Global Information War. Here's What We Need to Do to Win

How Russia's information war started and how to stop it

By Richard Stengel November 3, 2019

What Nelson Mandela Would Have Seen in President Trump

His highest praise for a leader was “measured"

By Richard Stengel November 26, 2019

Read TIME's 1986 Cover Story on Mario Cuomo

Read TIME's 1986 cover story on former New York Governor Mario Cuomo

By Richard Stengel February 16, 2017
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