Opinions about events beyond our borders.

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• Germany Is Tired of Paying Europe's Bills If Germans feel less guilty about the war, they won't make sacrifices to help feckless Greeks.
  Anne Applebaum March 9, 2010
  
• A Refugee Photo Album The everyday lives of Iraqi refugees in Jordan.
  Anna Husarska March 5, 2010
  
• Will the Exiles Return to Iraq? Sunday's election is a test of the permanence of the division between Iraq's Sunnis and Shiites.
  Deborah Amos March 5, 2010
  
• Shaken, but Not Broken Chile will survive the earthquake because its democracy works.
  Anne Applebaum March 1, 2010
  
• Bully for Brown Could complaints about his abusive behavior help Britain's prime minister get re-elected?
  June Thomas Feb. 24, 2010
  
• Preparing for the Worst The United States won't bomb Iran, but another country might.
  Anne Applebaum Feb. 23, 2010
  
• A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Dubai Assassination We won't know if it was worth it until we have all the facts.
  Shmuel Rosner Feb. 22, 2010
  
• Tea Party, Canada-Style! America's battle over health care reform started in Saskatchewan.
  Christopher Flavelle Feb. 18, 2010
  
• The Future Is Greek Take a good look at the Greek financial crisis. America could soon face something very similar.
  Anne Applebaum Feb. 17, 2010
  
• Love in the Time of Consultants China's date doctors to the rescue.
  Michelle Tsai Feb. 11, 2010
  
• Green-Washing Reports of the Iranian regime's imminent demise are greatly exaggerated.
  Jason Rezaian Feb. 9, 2010
  
• Orange Crush What Viktor Yanukovych's election victory means for Ukraine.
  Anne Applebaum Feb. 9, 2010
  
• The Big Problem With Big Solutions You can't reduce complex issues to three-word catchphrases.
  Anne Applebaum Feb. 4, 2010
  
• Exchange Student As a New York-based freelance journalist, I monitor the currency market as closely as I watch the news.
  Hernán Iglesias-Illa Jan. 26, 2010
  
• The Indian Way of Patriotism It's not nationalistic, not imperialist, not aggressive, but rather self-critical.
  Anne Applebaum Jan. 26, 2010
  
• Why Did We Focus on Securing Haiti Rather Than Helping Haitians? Here are two possibilities, neither of them flattering.
  Ben Ehrenreich Jan. 21, 2010
  
• Haiti Is a Man-Made Disaster Recovery will require a profound cultural and political change.
  Anne Applebaum Jan. 16, 2010
  
• Meet the New International Jihadist Elite How can we counter educated, eloquent, well-connected Islamists?
  Anne Applebaum Jan. 12, 2010
  
• Our Two-Faced Friends in Sanaa The Yemeni government opposes al-Qaida jihadists, except when it's using them for its own ends.
  Daniel Byman Jan. 5, 2010
  
• Sense and Security Every year we waste millions on wasteful homeland-security projects.
  Anne Applebaum Jan. 5, 2010
  
• Afghanistan Is Not Kind to Children Photographs about growing up in a society that privileges elders.
  Vanessa M. Gezari Jan. 4, 2010