Lee Hockstader

Paris, France

Education: Brown University, BA in American History, 1982; Harvard University, Fellow at the Russian Research Center, 1992-93; Stanford University, Knight Fellow, 2008-09

Lee Hockstader has been The Post's European Affairs columnist, based in Paris, since 2023. Prior to his current assignment, he was a member of the paper's Editorial Board for 19 years and, before that, a Post reporter for 20 years. He has worked in more than 40 countries, including as a foreign correspondent based in Jerusalem, Rome, Moscow and Central America. He also did stints as a national correspondent based in Texas, and as a reporter on The Post's local staff. Born in New York City, Hockstader graduated from Brown University and, after graduating, was a Henry Luce Scholar in Southeast A
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Russia killed Ukrainian athletes. The Olympics should ban it entirely.

A few dozen Russian athletes will be at the Paris Summer Games, competing under a neutral flag. But why should they be there at all?

April 11, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Moscow on Wednesday.

NATO chief’s ‘Trump-proofing’ proposal is a half-step forward

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg proposed a $100 billion package to ensure military aid to Ukraine for five years. Europe also needs to ensure its own preparedness.

April 4, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a news conference in Brussels on April 3. (Omar Havana/Getty Images)

This is not your parents’ Europe

The 27-nation European Union has faced protests and discontent ahead of critical elections. The challenge is to the continent’s decades-long centrist consensus.

April 1, 2024
As a form of protest, farmers unload potatoes outside the European Council building in Brussels on Tuesday. (Harry Nakos/AP)

A Russian Nobel laureate, living on a knife’s edge

Dmitry Muratov won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize as editor of Russia’s last truly free newspaper. He remains in Moscow, outspoken, forthright and free — for now.

March 21, 2024
Dmitry Muratov, then-editor of Novaya Gazeta, sits in Moscow City Court during an appeal of a ruling against the newspaper on Feb. 7, 2023. (AP)

In Haiti, the toxic effects of apathy and naiveté

The prime minister said on Tuesday that he will resign. What’s needed is an international operation to restore some semblance of order.

March 13, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Guyana President Irfaan Ali at an emergency meeting on Haiti in Kingston, Jamaica, on Monday. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Reuters)

Europe bickers while the Russian threat grows

Officials skewered each other for ill-considered comments, but Europe has deeper strategic problems: frail fighting forces and anemic military production.

March 11, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron, next to Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, speaks at a conference on Ukraine in Paris on Feb. 26.

France’s lionized, and reviled, guillotine terminator

Robert Badinter, who died last week at 95, was the driving force behind ending state-sponsored barbarism in France. For that he was lionized -- and reviled.

February 16, 2024

Are the Paris Olympics courting disaster?

The Opening Ceremonies for the Paris Summer Olympics will be unprecedented in ambition, scale — and possibly also risk. Can French security forces handle it?

February 14, 2024
The Olympic flag is seen at the Élysée Palace on Monday in Paris. (Aurelien Morissard/AP)

Russian journalists in exile are sending a critical message

Hundreds of Russian journalists fled their country after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. They are a lifeline of information to their homeland, but a fragile one.

February 12, 2024
A journalist works in a newsroom of TV Rain in Moscow in 2021. (Denis Kaminev/AP)

Meet the mayor — and controversy — behind this summer’s Paris Olympics

Anne Hidalgo has leveraged the Summer Games as an accelerator for an eco-agenda that, along with her tone-deaf advocacy, has infuriated many Parisians.

February 7, 2024
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo at the Hotel des Invalides on Jan. 5. (Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images)