How the market economy changed lives: East Europeans assess 30 years of freedom.
Freedom Reborn: Witnessing German Reunification

The fall of the Berlin Wall signaled a rebirth of freedom, liberating millions who had been trapped for two generations on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain.
Thirty Years After the Wall Fell: Part 2 — Central Europe

How the market economy changed lives: East Europeans assess 30 years of freedom.
Thirty Years After the Wall Fell: Part 1 — The Baltics and Kaliningrad

How the market economy changed lives: East Europeans assess 30 years of freedom.
The Breach of the Berlin Wall

The final hours before the fall of the Wall: An eyewitness report by an American diplomat.
The Other June 4, 1989

How the events in Tiananmen Square drove the first free election in Eastern Europe from front pages around the world.
Putin’s Russia Reset

What Putin learned from the 1989 German revolution — and how he misunderstood it
Twentieth Century Milestones in 2014

Can we use the milestones and guideposts of the past century to deal with current choices?
Counterpoint: Germany’s Exit from History?
Is Germany burying its head in the sand when confronted with the headwinds of the real world?
Egypt After Mubarak: New Era of Modernization?
How can Egypt stand at the edge of a new period of modernization and opening up in the Arab world?