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We should shrink the alliance’s budget and ambitions and focus on the greatest threat to the West: economic crisis.

The use of food as a weapon during World War II.

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

A novelist’s grim portrait of Central Europe between the wars.

Instead of a new era of democracy, disarmament and interdependence, we have had unchecked militarism and economic crisis.

Twenty years later, questions endure about how and why the nation abruptly dissolved.

On Naomi Klein, Ariel Dorfman, Gary Younge, Louis Uchitelle, Mary Robinson

The European Union exists in a no-man’s-land between democracy and technocracy.

Tara Zahra explains why orphaned children held a special grip on Europe’s postwar imagination.

From the first jobless Americans through the Great Depression to the Great Recession of the present moment, the reserve army of labor marches through time.