• Real simple

    To win the election and, once in power, to create new jobs, Democrats need a big plan everyone can understand: Have the government pay the first $1,000 in healthcare costs for every man, woman and child.
    By Thomas Geoghegan July 27, 2004

  • Anti-Semitic -- or anti-Sharon?

    When Western leaders met in Berlin this week to confront an ugly upsurge in European anti-Semitism, they pointed fingers not just at neo-Nazis and militant Muslims -- but also at the European left.
    By Alix Christie April 30, 2004

  • The A-word

    Is everyone who fails to follow Bush guilty of "appeasement"?
    By James Pinkerton March 19, 2004

  • A Spanish inquisition

    Will right-wing radio screamers now call for a boycott of Spanish olives?
    By Robert Scheer March 17, 2004

  • "Dresden: Tuesday, Feb. 13, 1945" by Frederick Taylor

    So the Allies ruthlessly -- and unjustifiably -- firebombed Germany's most beautiful city and murdered hundreds of thousands of people, right? Not quite, says a prominent British historian.
    By Laura Miller March 1, 2004

  • Powell's moment of truth

    He went from being the Bush administration's voice of moderation to its leading advocate for war. With a diplomatic meltdown looming, the secretary of state is in the hot seat.
    By Eric Boehlert March 3, 2003

  • Oil, imperialism and "hypocrisy"

    Among the hundreds of thousands protesting in London, most saw Bush and Blair as a bigger threat than dictator Saddam Hussein.
    By David Akerman February 16, 2003

  • Europe's new world order

    The streets are jammed with protesters. Governments are at risk of falling. Analysts say Europe is ready for a break from the U.S. that could reshape global relations for years to come.
    By Noah Sudarsky February 13, 2003

  • War games

    Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix's nuanced report won't resolve the diplomatic impasse between the U.S. and its European allies. But Bush seems ready to invade anyway.
    By Eric Boehlert January 28, 2003

  • Europe's declaration of independence

    Frustrated with the warmongering and arrogance of the Bush White House, Germany and France are making a historic break with the U.S. Relations may never be the same.
    By Noah Sudarsky January 25, 2003

  • Can Tony Blair stop the war?

    To some, he is a skilled power player. Others call him Bush's poodle. In the make-or-break weeks ahead, he could shape history -- or become its victim.
    By Eric Boehlert January 23, 2003

  • Joe Conason's Journal

    Why are we going to war in Iraq? Plus: What Tony Blair told the Germans about Iraq. Behold, the Wayback Machine!
    September 20, 2002

  • Herr Schroeder can't catch a break

    Gerhard Schroeder was seen as Germany's Bill Clinton -- media wise, progressive and practical. Today, mired in an enigmatic reelection campaign, only his wife defends him.
    By Ashley Fantz August 26, 2002

  • Ten things I learned about life and soccer from the 2002 World Cup

    There is a football God, and despite the wild twists and turns of this year's tournament, He's still Brazilian.
    By Andrew O'Hehir July 2, 2002

  • Europe's impotent outrage

    Officials across the Atlantic are steaming about President Bush's "axis of evil" rhetoric, but there's not much they can do about it.
    By Steve Kettmann February 14, 2002

  • No more Lone Ranger

    European leaders like the internationalist Bush who has emerged from last week's terror attacks.
    By Steve Kettmann September 18, 2001

  • "We are all Americans"

    With the news that several hijackers studied in Hamburg, Germans throw their support behind Bush, and the tensions of his early months in office melt away -- for now.
    By Daryl Lindsey and Steve Kettmann September 13, 2001

  • License and registration, please

    An artificial penis and a ruined kisser speak volumes about traffic safety.
    By Chris Colin July 31, 2001

  • A Bonn surprise

    European leadership yields a new agreement on the Kyoto Protocol, isolating the U.S. as the only holdout on global warming.
    By Steve Kettmann July 23, 2001

  • Bush's Euro-skeptics

    In France they call him "an idiot." In Germany they call him a "big bully." Forget China -- Europe could turn out to be President Bush's biggest foreign policy problem yet.
    By Steve Kettmann April 6, 2001

  • Jean-Jacques Annaud

    The renowned French director of "Quest for Fire," "The Lover" and "Seven Years in Tibet" provokes a firestorm over his breathtaking new war film, "Enemy at the Gates."
    By Stephen Lemons March 19, 2001

  • Choke hold

    The wife of a man who died during autoerotism is denied his insurance.
    By Jack Boulware January 4, 2001

  • Paradise regained

    Weimar Berlin's depraved, sin-filled nights tantalize the imagination anew in Mel Gordon's "Voluptuous Panic."
    By Stephen Lemons November 22, 2000

  • Back on the green

    A German golfer, kicked out of his club for appearing in a porn film, is reinstated by a judge's ruling.
    By Jack Boulware October 23, 2000

  • Germans and their "Handys"

    A recent poll taken by a German magazine shows more people turn off cellphones in theaters than during sex.
    By Jack Boulware October 13, 2000
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