Europe

Tweet With Caution

The government is watching.

BY JAMIE BARTLETT AND CARL MILLER | JUNE 26, 2012

No Special Sauce on This Currywurst

The end of the German "miracle" is coming.

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | JUNE 25, 2012

Flirting with Disaster

Is Greece a failed state?

BY PATRICIA TAFT | JUNE 19, 2012

For Multilateralism, Is This the Dark Moment Before the Dawn?

Let's hope so.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | JUNE 18, 2012

Drachmail and the New Democrats

Can Germany's Angela Merkel hold fast against Greek brinksmanship?

BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL | JUNE 18, 2012

8 Geographical Pivot Points

From Angola to Yemen, eight countries whose futures are tied up in the land they occupy.

BY MARGARET SLATTERY | JUNE 18, 2012

Famous KGB Spies: Where Are They Now?

The strange-but-true life stories of seven Soviet spooks.

BY KATIE CELLA | JUNE 18, 2012

The World in Photos This Week

Egypt implodes (again), Greeks head for the polls, and Shiite pilgrims converge on a bloody Baghdad.

JUNE 15, 2012

Greeks Don't Want a Grexit

The pundits say that Greece will have to drop the euro after Sunday's election. But that's not what the Greek people want.

BY LOUIS KLAREVAS | JUNE 14, 2012

12 Signs of the Europocalypse

From the Chinese buying spree to the rise of extremism, here's what to watch for as the continent teeters on the brink of disaster.

BY DOUGLAS REDIKER, DAVID GORDON | JUNE 12, 2012

Up Close and Angry

The CIA's Sabrina De Sousa dishes on the Bush administration officials who ordered the botched extraordinary rendition operation -- or kidnapping, if you're an Italian judge -- that made her a wanted woman.

BY JEFF STEIN | JUNE 12, 2012

Greece's MAD Strategy

When faced with the nuclear option of a Grexit, will Germany blink?

BY THOMAS WRIGHT | JUNE 11, 2012

Sparking a Driving Revolution

Are electric cars finally having their moment?

BY HILLARY HURD AND KATIE CELLA | JUNE 8, 2012

Something's Rotten in Athens

Scenes from a failing economy.

BY TIMOTHY FADEK | JUNE 6, 2012

The Financial Guns of August

Is it too late to stop Europe's impending economic disaster?

BY JOHN QUIGGIN | JUNE 5, 2012

The World in Photos This Week

An  ex-president is convicted, England celebrates, and Angela Merkel feeds a penguin.

JUNE 1, 2012

Grexit? Spexit? Let's Call the Whole Thing Off

Everyone wants southern Europe's troubled economies to go their own way, except for the people who live there.

BY EDWARD HUGH | MAY 31, 2012

Losing Polio

Did the CIA ruin our chance to eradicate one of the world's worst diseases?

BY LAURIE GARRETT | MAY 31, 2012

Diamonds Are a Queen's Best Friend

The sun may have set on the British Empire, but the royals still throw a hell of a party.

MAY 29, 2012

Where the Drones Are

Mapping the launch pads for Obama's secret wars.

BY MICAH ZENKO AND EMMA WELCH | MAY 29, 2012

A Man With No Country

The vulgar political afterlife of Prime Minister Tony Blair.

BY ALEX MASSIE | MAY 29, 2012

The Name Is Bond. Eurobond.

Europe's debt crisis gets a new potential hero, with Germany once again cast in the role of villain.

BY HEATHER A. CONLEY AND UTTARA DUKKIPATI | MAY 25, 2012

Romney: Year One

What would happen if you took Mitt Romney's foreign-policy promises extremely literally?

BY DANIEL DREZNER | MAY 25, 2012

The World in Photos This Week

Egypt's first free election begins, NASA gets some commercial help, and Chen Guangcheng lands in New York.

MAY 25, 2012

5 World Events That Could Swing the U.S. Election

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are slugging it out over the economy, but the world may have a trick or two up its sleeve.

BY URI FRIEDMAN | MAY 24, 2012

The 7 Worst Songs of Eurovision 2012

The lowlights of Europe's annual tribute to trashy Europop.

BY LOIS PARSHLEY | MAY 24, 2012

Power Ballad

What happens when you mix a trashy Europop spectacle with an oil-soaked Caspian dictator?

BY HALEY SWEETLAND EDWARDS | MAY 24, 2012

Are We Focusing on the Wrong Nuclear Threat?

Americans are wringing their hands about the grave threat that a nuclear Iran would pose to the United States. But the numbers tell a different story.

BY VICTOR ASAL AND BRYAN EARLY | MAY 24, 2012

Don't Fear the Grexit

Greece is not Lehman Brothers, and the global economy will be just fine if it drops out of the eurozone.

BY THOMAS OATLEY, KINDRED WINECOFF | MAY 23, 2012

Damned if You Do

Obama hasn't made a peep about cutting U.S. support to NATO -- though everyone agrees it's necessary to get Europeans to pay their fair share. And yet, Romney attacks him for it.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | MAY 23, 2012