With a tough re-election campaign coming up, Merkel has decided that bashing the ECB could offer a political advantage ahead of European Parliament elections this weekend
SnagFilms | SnagFilms | Posted 07.03.2009 | Home
Hosted by Tom Brokaw, this primetime special honored both the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing and the fall of the Berlin...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
I say that Cheney and Gingrich don't love America because they don't seem to care about American values as they have traditionally been viewed.
Dygest.net Green | Dygest.net | Posted 04.19.2009 | Home
I know that this is not the first time in the past few years that we have seen a period film but the reunion of Michelle Pfeiffer and Director Step...
AP | Posted 03.19.2009 | World
BERLIN — Architectural plans for the Nazi death camp Auschwitz that were discovered in Berlin last year go on public display in the German capit...
Nancy Kruh | Posted 03.06.2009 | Media
In his book, Snark David Denby describes Maureen Dowd as "essentially sour and without hope," but my evidence, I believe, proves him wrong.
David Weiner | Posted 02.22.2009 | Style
Honestly, I had no idea who Mahmut Ayg�n was or that there even was a "Kebab King," yet now I mourn his death tremendously. After all, this is the man who invented the "doner kebab."
The Independent | Tony Paterson | Posted 02.06.2009 | World
The building is Berlin's counter- culture temple - a vast graffiti-smeared and bomb-damaged former department store that boasts two bars, a restaurant...
AP | Posted 01.16.2009 | World
BERLIN — Berlin's memorial to gay victims of the Nazis has been vandalized for the second time in four months. Berlin police say a window on th...
AP | MELISSA EDDY | Posted 01.10.2009 | World
BERLIN — Two paintings that the Nazis forced a Jewish art dealer to sell off in the 1930s have been returned to his estate, and its heirs said W...
Steve Parker | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business
Here's some of what's happening, mostly with GM, in Europe and Asia, two markets outside the U.S. hit hardest by the slowing automobile business.
Steve Kettmann | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
choice of Hillary Clinton to be his Secretary of State would represent a great show of respect to our allies that he wants the best available person to handle the job of being his top diplomat.
Stefan Sirucek | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics
If America is indeed on the path to being cool again we might see a wave of this sort of voluntary repatriation.
Norman MacAfee | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics
I urge you to see a new film, Virtual JFK: Vietnam, If Kennedy Had Lived, by Koji Masutani, now at the Film Forum in New York through September 30.
The Huffington Post | Willow Lindley | Posted 10.23.2008 | Style
With Spring 2009 trends stomping down runways worldwide it seems designers from Madrid to London to Paris to Milan to New York are complimenting, or e...
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
As one of Germany's leading journalists reports, the embassy will hold a memorial ceremony for September 11th together with the Jewish Community of Berlin.
Paul Hunt | Posted 09.23.2008 | Home
Obama's candidacy has generated effective grassroots initiatives in the States and it might well do the same on this side of the Atlantic, which would be a major change in many European states.
Susan Neiman | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics
In Berlin, Obama gave his hearers hope, not hysteria -- the hope for an America that could not only work with European nations, but even be a model for them.
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
What I'm really saying is Americans are unconscious. You can see it in the verbs. This isn't a value judgment, I am just intrigued by what gets in and...
Steve Posner | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
Why was Obama waxing patriotic during his foreign trip instead of touting a universal spirituality that removes the need to make cultural and political distinctions?
David Mixner | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
As I recounted in my initial thoughts about the Obama Berlin speech, I recalled that Gandhi said we have to value our words as much as our actions. Obama understands that, and our history has shown it to be true.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 08.03.2008 | Politics
Presidential contests are all about comparisons. What is different this year is that there has been a total role reversal -- the new candidate looks seasoned and the old hand looks inexperienced.
Steve Clemons | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
I interviewed non-violence advocate Mustafa Barghouti yesterday found his hope in Obama being replaced by 'disappointment.'
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
Be careful what you wish for, John. That seems to be the message of the week for Senator John McCain. He took some campaign consultant's idea a few w...
William Bradley | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
Here are six reasons McCain is very fortunate he ended up at Schmidt's Sausage Haus in Ohio Friday, rather than on a pitching oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
Brett Neely | Posted 07.04.2009 | World