Margaret Thatcher didn't listen, because to have listened might have diminished her absolute conviction she was right, as well as her determination to change radically the way Britain did business, regardless of the social fall-out. But her inability to listen would be her undoing.

The recent resignation of the Bulgarian government, after several days of protest, reveals the deep discontent among the people over the economic situation.

Read through the stories appearing everyday in the Greek press (which you might only find buried on the back pages of American newspapers) and you will undoubtedly ask yourself: "How long will these proud people put up with such degradation?"

Prime ministers are pretty busy people, especially when the capitalist world believes that your nation could be a domino that brings down the rest of them.

French public opinion and political culture is at least one ocean apart from those in America. But the French failure to meet the challenge of reform in 2010 teaches America that the longer it waits, the harder and more unfair reform will become.

The United States would do well to pay close attention to Britain's very real revolution. Washington needs a George Osborne.

The demonstrations that have rocked France this past week highlight some of its differences from the United States. This photo, for example, shows the...

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The groups carrying the "One Nation" banner might want to focus a bit less on projecting an aura of middle-class liberal harmony, and instead learn from the mass appeal of European union militancy.

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