For the first time in ages, a country is switching to driving on the left. Should we all drive on the same side?
By Tom Vanderbilt Aug 14, 2009
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Seventeen Guantánamo inmates of Uighur origin may soon be leaving Cuba for Palau.
By Spiegel staff
June 10, 2009
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The right just won all across Europe, thanks to nationalism, populism and recession. It could happen here too.
By Michael Lind
June 9, 2009
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I've adventured and gotten writing gigs and fallen in love with cities, but failure dogs me! Can I just go home?
By Cary Tennis
June 3, 2009
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A new study finds the tactic is worse than useless in combating terrorism.
By Andrew Curry
May 27, 2009
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He may seem like Mister Rogers. But in a revealing interview, the travel guru shares his daring views on Iran and terrorism, spoiled Americans and the best places to smoke pot in Europe.
By Kevin Berger
March 20, 2009
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Are Asians less fearful of genetically modified organisms than Europeans?
By Andrew Leonard
January 17, 2009
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I'm full of ideas, and my company headquarters is there.
By Cary Tennis
October 29, 2008
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The Eternal City is too vast and ancient to grasp, and the harder you try, the more it slips away. So you have to dream your way into it.
By Gary Kamiya
July 22, 2008
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What happens to a society with a declining birth rate which refuses to open the door to outsiders?
By Andrew Leonard
July 3, 2008
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Many Europeans would like to see him as the next U.S. president. But a transatlantic trip to burnish his credentials will be a balancing act.
By Gregor Peter Schmitz
July 1, 2008
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A building frenzy is raging in Asia, Russia and the Persian Gulf. And cities like New York don't have the money to compete. Will the West soon look outdated?
By Ulrike Knöfel, Frank Hornig and Bernhard Zand
June 9, 2008
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Could I really be blowing the definitive period of my college life?
By Cary Tennis
February 28, 2008
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That is, of course, only if you're white.
By Catherine Price
February 19, 2008
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A new crop of American dreamers are betting the farm on truffles, which Europeans have savored like sex for ages. But can the Yanks get the mysterious mushrooms to grow?
By Peter Alsop
February 16, 2008
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NPR's Sylvia Poggioli launches a six-part series about European Muslims.
By Catherine Price
January 22, 2008
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The senator may have traveled widely, but the critically important subcommittee on Europe has languished under his leadership.
By Joe Conason
December 29, 2007
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The messy history of cleanliness, and why our obsession with dirt may be making us sick.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
November 30, 2007
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A new transcript reveals the president, on the brink of the Iraq invasion, full of faith, calm and unyielding optimism.
By Mark Danner
October 18, 2007
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Europe has too much wine. But does converting the excess into biofuel make even drunken sense?
By Andrew Leonard
June 26, 2007
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Can France's new president -- and the next American one -- begin to reverse the damage of the Bush era?
By Gregory Levey
June 15, 2007
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The president's trip was a pageant of disdain, delusion and provocation masquerading as a respite from his troubles at home.
By Sidney Blumenthal
June 14, 2007
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Danish politics lurched right as the scandal provoked Muslims worldwide. But now Danes are fed up with their own "Bush-lite" -- and are backing a Muslim immigrant.
By Jytte Klausen
May 29, 2007
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I am a New Yorker living like a prisoner in London.
By Cary Tennis
January 29, 2007
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Explosive caricatures of Mohammed saw little fallout in Scandinavia, but will they unleash a new wave of riots in France's restive Muslim enclaves?
By Kim Rahir
February 3, 2006