[Paris] – The chance to spend a few weeks in France this summer provided both the time and the detachment to reflect – on politics, the...

Tenth in a series from Europe… And what more exotic destination than Istanbul or, better yet, Constantinople. From the 1880’s until the...

Tenth in a series from Europe… And what more exotic destination than Istanbul or, better yet, Constantinople. From the 1880’s until the...

Ninth in a series from Europe… The French are famous, or depending upon your point of view notorious, for their attempts to protect the...

Ninth in a series from Europe… The French are famous, or depending upon your point of view notorious, for their attempts to protect the...

[Paris] – On a European scale the apparatus of daily life – the kitchen gadgets, the automobiles and, yes, the household appliances – are...

[Paris] – On a European scale the apparatus of daily life – the kitchen gadgets, the automobiles and, yes, the household appliances – are...

[Paris] – We are not always able to precisely identify the exact moment when some overarching event changed the world. History is rarely...

[Paris] – We are not always able to precisely identify the exact moment when some overarching event changed the world. History is rarely...

[Paris] – I have been thinking about – and eating – strawberries. I bought my strawberries last weekend from a fruit stall along the Rue...

[Paris] – I have been thinking about – and eating – strawberries. I bought my strawberries last weekend from a fruit stall along the Rue...

[Port en Bessin, Normandy] – We’ve all heard the classic stereotype frequently attached to the French; they’re cool – even cold –...

[Milan] – Over the weekend the newspapers in France were reporting on one of the worst national rail strikes in memory. The strike was...

The man who had twice been Prime Minister of France, an international statesman, a friend of Herbert Hoover and TIME’s Man of the Year in...

A very big day today in Montevideo, Uruguay and you probably won’t read much about it in the U.S. A new president, a left of center...