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The Czech playwright's enduring ideas about politics, truth and human nature.

Vaclav Havel was undoubtedly one of the greatest Europeans of our generation, a man, who fully deserves the unquestionable respect both of his country and the world.

Occupy Wall Street has exposed a system that regards people as disposable, but not usually so literally.

Returning to Chile decades after Allende’s death, I was no longer a soldier of the revolution. What changed?

Unwrapping the enigma of the career diplomat who wrote the Long Telegram.

As we near the 100th anniversary of Jim Thorpe’s triumph in the 1912 Olympics, his story is worth telling again and again.

The musical and political strands of Dmitri Shostakovich's life were intertwined like the braids of a noose.

As Tom Segev’s biography makes clear, in the entire pantheon of Jewish superheroes there is no more unlikely figure than Simon Wiesenthal.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

With cries for “democracy” and “freedom” sweeping Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere, the Bush-era’s now-infamous “democracy agenda” is nowhere in sight.