For me, and for so many other people around the world, the anniversary is bittersweet. As the people of Germany celebrate a wall coming down, the people of Palestine are overwrought by a wall going up.
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home
BERLIN — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Europeans and Americans on Sunday to see the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin...
Posted 11.09.2009 | World
Monday November 9th marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a monumental moment in history which the Economist recently referred to...
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
Some argue that the Cold War was just too costly for the Soviet empire to maintain. But the wall couldn't have come down without a nonviolent people power uprising.
AP | MELISSA EDDY and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
BERLIN — Ulrich Sauff and his wife stared at the mammoth domino pieces marking the path where the Berlin Wall once stood and reminisced about li...
Posted 11.08.2009 | World
Mikhail Gorbachev supports a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN's John King Sunday on State Of ...
Kristi York Wooten | Posted 11.07.2009 | Entertainment
At the end of the day, we were but tourists in the whole charade. Yet one American fit right in: David Hasselhoff.
Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
The abrupt and miserable end of the socialist experiment--it all happened so fast, with East Germany getting absorbed into West Germany on Oct. 3, 199...
GlobalPost | Posted 11.02.2009 | World
I first saw the Berlin Wall in 1971. It was then about 10 years old and was the ugliest human structure I'd ever seen: gray, brutal, pitiless, unyield...
Nathan Gardels | Posted 10.31.2009 | World
The fall of the Berlin Wall led Francis Fukuyama to famously declare "the end of history." Twenty years on, what does Fukuyama think about where history has gone since?
AP | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment
BERLIN — Achtung, baby: U2 will play a free concert in Berlin to help the city celebrate 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Music netw...
Nick Foulkes | Posted 10.26.2009 | Style
This Museum reminded me just how cool Jack looked. Kennedy showed that you could be a man who shopped and still face down the Soviet Union when the need arose.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
The Kennedys knew how to strive for noble causes, step by step. They would make deals, but only to benefit the best causes.
Stefanie Michaels | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
Tom Sello's Peaceful Revolution exhibit -- his life's dream of sharing freedom and his story with his fellow Germans-- has come to fruition.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 08.21.2009 | World
A reader sent me a piece of the Berlin Wall. The stone painted with remnants of graffiti suggests to me an impossible collection of what has contributed to the separation of Cubans.
GlobalPost | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
An army of artists has assembled along the Berlin Wall on recent summer mornings, shielded by straw hats and baseball caps. Paintbrushes in one hand, ...
Dora Bakoyannis | Posted 07.26.2009 | World
Today, the renewed commitment from Russia and the U.S. to work on common ground, focusing their relationship on what unites them, creates a momentum we should built on.
John Milewski | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
While we can't underestimate the power and resolve of desperate regimes, we also can't resist letting ourselves dream that Tehran can become the next Berlin.
Der Spiegel | Caroline Winter | Posted 07.18.2009 | Style
Most think of East Germany as having been drab, gray and boring. But an underground fashion scene did its best to spice things up. A new documentary t...
Reuters | Jacob Comenetz | Posted 07.10.2009 | Style
Daniel Rodan, Berlin's leather fashion designer to the stars, unveiled a new collection of Berlin Wall art-themed clothing on Tuesday as part of the 2...
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
A stage divided by the Berlin Wall on one side -- seeming so much like Cuba today -- a group of people who fight to buy, love and subsist. Through th...
Spiegel | Posted 06.29.2009 | World
They wanted to clean up the basement but found a treasure trove of photos instead. After Berlin teacher Manfred Beier died, his sons stumbled across 6...
Jim Luce | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
Funding would be better used to investigate and sanction U.S. employers who habitually hire undocumented migrants. This would not only be cheaper, but more humane.
Lester Sloan | Posted 03.29.2009 | World
Susan turned to me and said, "Obama's election was like the fall of the Berlin Wall." Given that she has three history degrees, including a Ph.D., I felt that she spoke with some authority.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 03.23.2009 | Green
If each country can reduce defense spending by 10% each year, with the resultant savings being applied to renewable energy and climate change, that would be a nice start.
Queen Rania of Jordan | Posted 11.09.2009 | World