An American who had lived abroad, he sought out books by up-and-coming German writers, while ghostwriting memoirs for rock ...

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Particularly during the early days of the Eastern Bloc, the USSR – of which East Germany was a satellite state – heavily regulated the music that its citizens consumed. The only official releases ...

Vladislav Zubok’s monumental account is not just history, but a reassessment of a stand-off that still shapes geopolitics today ...

I am writing this article from the German capital, Berlin, specifically at the iconic Television Tower in Alexanderplatz. It ...

Eastern Europe flocked towards the West when the Soviet Union fell. Now Donald Trump is pushing Western democracies ...

Ukraine could be divided ‘almost like Berlin after World War II’ as part of a deal to end Russia ’s full-scale invasion. This ...

With the world being thrown into disorder by tensions, tariffs and wars, the West is not what it used to be, the President of ...

Merganser drake decoy by Nova Scotia carver Capt. Edwin Bachman (1872-1914) of stylish form, with a carved head featuring a prominent integral cre ...

The flawed argument about NATO expansion flows from two false premises. One is that in February 1990, when then-U.S.

In the event of a peace settlement dividing Ukraine in two, the nations of the West have a critical interest in strengthening the western half—both as a bulwark against Russian encroachment and as a ...

When we think of one-hit wonder songs, often those tracks are silly or goofy; but some are actually quite profound.