How heartwarming it is to land in Germany, where football fans hold up banners welcoming refugees from the war-ravaged Middle East.Germany is the new Promised Land for the desperate and downtrodden, the survivors of war and pillage. Even the popular German tabloids, not norm

Donald Trump, the real estate tycoon and reality-show host, also known as “The Donald”, is unlikely to be the next president of the United States. He is loud, crude, ignorant about most things, and looks absurd in his puffed up blond comb-over hairdo.

Vidkun Quisling, Norway’s wartime fascist leader whose name has become synonymous with collaboration with evil, lived with his wife in a rather grandiose villa outside of Oslo.That villa is now the Norwegian Centre for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities, a fine tra

On May 8, 1945, when World War II in Europe officially ended, much of the world lay in ruins.But if the human capacity for destruction knows few limits, the ability to start over again is just as remarkable.

Why did he do it? What possessed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept an invitation from the Republicans in the US Congress to come and attack President Barack Obama’s policy on Iran without letting the White House know? Netanyahu claims that his was &ldquo

The Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was murdered by a Muslim extremist in Amsterdam a little more than 10 years ago, had much in common with the satirists of Charlie Hebdo. Like the French editors and cartoonists, he was a provocateur, a moral anarchist, a shock artist who ne

The British shadow minister for Europe, Pat McFadden, recently warned members of his Labour Party that they should try to make the most of the global economy and not treat immigration like a disease. As he put it, “you can feed on people’s grievances or you can give

The times we live in are often most clearly reflected in the mirror of art. Much has been written about post-communism in Russia and China.

The time before last that Israel was fighting a war in Gaza, in 2009, Avigdor Lieberman, the foreign minister at the time, compared the conflict to America’s war with Japan.