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Angela Merkel
July 5, 2017
Emily Atkin
Trump is about to get an earful in Europe for his climate-change denial.
May 30, 2017
Jeet Heer
Trump’s European Trip Was a Watershed Moment
A split has emerged between the U.S. and its European allies. And there's probably no going back.
May 26, 2017
Jeet Heer
Why Trump Is a Salesman With Autocrats and a Slumlord With Allies
On his first foreign trip, he charmed the Saudis and shamed NATO.
May 15, 2017
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump Killed the “Indispensable Nation.” Good!
What might countries accomplish now that they can't rely on America?
March 17, 2017
Jeet Heer
Angela Merkel can only look on in wonder as Donald Trump beclowns himself.
March 17, 2017
Jeet Heer
No blind date can match the painful awkwardness of this Trump-Merkel photo-op.
December 19, 2016
Alex Shephard
The Berlin Christmas market attack is a gift to Europe’s far right.
November 28, 2016
Nicole Narea
Is Steve Bannon’s dream of a global alt-right coming true?
July 14, 2016
Kathleen Geier
Women Rule the World. Don’t Celebrate Yet, Feminists.
Their policies on women's issues matter more than their gender does.
June 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
Will France come out as the big winner of Brexit?
May 12, 2016
Dinesh Sharma
America’s Exceptional Lack of a Female President
A global perspective on the upcoming presidential election.
February 3, 2016
Elaine Teng
Germany continues to close its open door to refugees.
December 9, 2015
Ryu Spaeth
Time’s Person of the Year is a monster. Or a saint, depending whom you ask.
October 21, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Dangerous Motivation Behind Netanyahu's Holocaust Revisionism
February 25, 2014
Marc Tracy
In Which the Israeli Prime Minister Gives the German Chancellor a Hitler Mustache
Awkward! But not for the reason you think.
November 3, 2013
Cameron Abadi
The Betrayal of Angela Merkel
She loved America more than any other European leader. So why did the NSA target her?
October 29, 2013
Jack Goldsmith
White House and Congress Didn't Know the NSA Was Spying on Allies? I Doubt It
September 23, 2013
Cameron Abadi
The Machiavellian Genius of Angela Merkel
March 24, 2013
Julia Ioffe
Saving Cyprustan
How Russia Sees Cyprus
November 28, 2012
Cameron Abadi
Please, Herr Krugman, May I Have Another?
How America’s favorite liberal stokes German masochism

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