The Globalist

How the market economy changed lives: East Europeans assess 30 years of freedom.

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.

How the market economy changed lives: East Europeans assess 30 years of freedom.

How the market economy changed lives: East Europeans assess 30 years of freedom.

The final hours before the fall of the Wall: An eyewitness report by an American diplomat.

How the events in Tiananmen Square drove the first free election in Eastern Europe from front pages around the world.

What Putin learned from the 1989 German revolution — and how he misunderstood it

Can we use the milestones and guideposts of the past century to deal with current choices?

Is Germany burying its head in the sand when confronted with the headwinds of the real world?

How can Egypt stand at the edge of a new period of modernization and opening up in the Arab world?