Before talking to Vladimir Putin, the West should listen to Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, not French President Emmanuel Macron.

A year ago, the leftist government of Germany’s capital region imposed central planning on the city’s housing market. That was a bad move

For the West to keep deterring Putin, Turkey needs to stop stonewalling Sweden and Finland and threatening war against Greece.

The strategic port city in eastern Ukraine could join the list of the most tragic but courageous last stands.

A year ago, the leftist government of Germany’s capital region imposed central planning on the city’s housing market. That was a bad move

Two months after proclaiming a U-turn in foreign and defense policy, Germany’s chancellor seems to have lost heart.

In fencing and tennis as in life, responsibility is individual, not collective. All the more reason why Olga Kharlan did the right thing.

The next Treasury secretary could make the lives of millions of Americans easier at no cost at all.

The former German chancellor, like the 1930s' British prime minister, will be remembered for appeasing an aggressive tyrant.

With coronavirus mutations pitted against vaccinations in a global arms race, we may never go back to normal.

In the 1990s Ukraine ditched its nukes in return for Russian guarantees of territorial integrity. By breaking that deal, Vladimir Putin has increased the risk of nuclear war.

The new coronavirus coming out of China may or may not be the “big one.” But we should practice what we learned from SARS in 2003.

Hint: Wait until the Turkish elections pass in May. Then, if necessary, change the rules.

The US is unique in tormenting its citizens abroad with tax obligations. But the justices could show mercy.

The U.S. is (almost) unique in the way it taxes citizens working abroad. Its system stinks.

Both have deep fault lines. The difference is how the two cultures deal with them.

United, vigorous and expanding, the Western alliance has become everything Vladimir Putin loathes, and exactly what the free world needs.

As Libya and Iran show, Europe generally loses in the rough-and-tumble of world politics. It needs to drop its illusions about power.

Character plays a huge role in resilience. But not in the way many of us thought a year ago.

A wrongheaded phase-out of nuclear power plus a wrongheaded reliance on Putin’s natural gas means Germany needs another U-turn.

Countries in Africa, Asia and South America should support Ukraine against Putin. But the West could help by being less hypocritical.

The autocrats in Minsk and Moscow know the EU’s weaknesses and how to exploit them. The only question is how far they want to go.

For some Germans, refugees seem like more daring versions of themselves

Like many other entrepreneurs and innovators, the scientists developing the leading vaccine candidate against Covid-19 have foreign roots

Western angst about deploying “offensive” weapons is misplaced. Ukraine’s entire struggle is self-defense.

Germany tends to be painted by outsiders and insiders in mutually exclusive superlatives. Both caricatures miss the point

Judge the outgoing German chancellor by her vision or her reforms, and she’s a failure. Apply a subtler standard, and she’s historic.

The Russian leader has come up with a constitutional reform that gives him three paths to indefinite rule.

A concept that came out of the Thirty Years War could become obsolete in the age of ecological apocalypse.

Europe’s largest economy has the physical infrastructure it needs for the digital era. What about the mental sort?

The question now is whether the US, Congress and the IRS also want to help Americans abroad.

The Israelis have ignored their American friends too long. If US support remains unconditional, Washington will pay the price.

From the US to Hungary, Israel, Brazil and beyond, the struggle is worldwide and never ends. A look back offers hints of what’s ahead.

The standoff and shelling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant puts all of humanity in peril.

To avoid a wider war, American diplomacy must keep China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as separate as possible. That’ll be hard.

First the Baltic pipelines, now German trains: So much apparent sabotage puts us in a liminal state between peace and war.

This week he’s cutting the gas to Poland and Bulgaria, next month he could attack Moldova. Would he stop at nukes?

The vice president just showed a global audience that she could be a strong leader. But reassuring the world about US engagement is beyond her powers.

Almost every nation at some point believes it’s special and on a mission. They’re all wrong, and the sooner we get over this nonsense, the better.

Something’s wrong when an open race for a big election with huge issues produces only mediocrities.

The 25-year saga of a missing traffic light in Berlin speaks volumes about contemporary Germany.

Starting accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania is better than spurning them. But enlargement presents a problem we should talk about honestly.

What makes Russia's aggression so terrifying is that it’s determined solely by the perceived self-interest of one man.

The Law of the Sea is no match for geography, history and politics. To avoid war, Ankara, Athens and others must talk.

A huge infrastructure project by 12 eastern EU states is an obvious geopolitical opportunity.

Auschwitz and all it stands for has become the object of rival propaganda efforts.

Sometimes not making a decision becomes the decision. By dithering about sending tanks to Ukraine, the German Chancellor is making the worst kind.

Our brains appear hardwired to add stuff rather than take things away. That explains a lot about the messes we keep making.

We already had to wean ourselves off fossil fuels for the sake of the planet. Now we need to do it for our self-defense as well.

Leopards could turn the war even more in Kyiv’s favor.

Garble comes from Anglo-French garbeler, meaning 'to remove impurities or refuse from (spices).' The English word refers to distortion of speech or writing that makes its meaning unclear (impure).

“Hitler Kitsch,” “Nazi Porn” and Godwin’s Law have given us the frightening ignorance of people like Kanye West.

For the sake of an important budget and stimulus deal, the European Union is close to selling its democratic soul.

Germany has long been on a “special path” — a Sonderweg — of messianic naivete. Russia’s attack on Ukraine put an end to that.

Rejuvenating the long and tortuous friendship with Washington would be good for both countries, and the world

This week’s police raid proves once again that the loonies and extremists are getting more dangerous everywhere.

Germany’s cult of speed crashes into the wartime need to conserve.

Incomprehensible gibberish by politicos isn’t unique to the country, but the German language does abet the crime.

His address to the nation during the Wagner mutiny and the subsequent deal to let its leader off the hook suggest the Russian President is toast.

The formerly rambunctious Greens show harmony, the famously disciplined conservatives come close to civil war. Go figure.