A book newly available in English shows how, when overwhelmed by debt, the Nazis kept ruin at bay by confiscation and robbery.

Barack Obama's supporters are predicting that he will give us a new New Deal. To see what that might mean, let's look back on the original.

If the crisis over Iraq can finally bury the fantasy of splitting the West by building a rival European superpower, even the recent tantrums of France and Germany may well have been worth it.

Democracy, markets, globalization constitute the only show in town and will remain so unless and until the antiglobalization forces can come up with a credible and workable alternative.

Three disturbing trends now underway in Europe together represent the greatest erosion of democratic practice in the world's advanced democracies since 1945.

Instead of silencing extremists,anti-Nazi speech laws reduce political debate in Europe and often punish mainstream politicians and parties.

Is the now sixty-year-old Marshall Plan a good model for increased aid to Africa?

The inclusion of former Eastern bloc nations in the European Union will change Europe politically, economically, and culturally.