It is also the starkest sign of the extraordinary turn taken by a country that took full receipt of the peace dividend after ...

I walked through Checkpoint Charlie across the Berlin wall into communist East Berlin to watch the May Day parade.

Introduction On October 24, 1970, in writing for the Amsterdam weekly, Vrij Nederland, Dutch journalist and Trotskyite Igor ...

Kehlmann's "The Director" is a story of artistic compromise. Some of its scenes are inspired by his father's life under ...

Leading academic institutions have been toppled before in centers of learning such as Berlin and Beijing. Is Boston next?

In what was his most assertive statement to date on Taiwan, Hegseth issued a stark warning that threats to the island from ...

Some of the most famous mosaic murals in California, Disneyland and Disney World are the work of Hanns-Joachim Scharff, a ...

The Skoda Favorit broke new ground when it debuted back in 1987, bringing modern Western Europe design to those living in the ...

This does not mean an end to transatlantic relations and pragmatic cooperation, as demonstrated by the meeting between the US ...

A map of the world based on traditional military power shows a dramatic, indeed radical, shift from the world even a few ...

My guide to Leipzig was a Western German now living in the East. One night we sat down to dinner with his wife, who grew up in the communist “DDR” (the initials for the official name of the ...

Once trapped in communist East Germany, bustling Leipzig is now a city of business and of culture. It’s also a city of great ...