Articles by Timothy Garton Ash

The seven years since 9/11 reveal an old truth: Problems are usually not solved, they are just overtaken by other problems. Read more

The French historian Jacques Bainville once observed that “things have never gone well.” Read more

Whether you believe in him or not, it’s time to give God a helping hand. Read more

This weekend, unless Burma’s generals rediscover in their shriveled souls some hidden remnant of human decency, there will take place in the Irrawaddy River delta one of the most grotesque events in the political history of the modern world. Read more

Some time in the next decade, two European countries will become members of the European Union. Read more

Every so often, just when you’re getting tired of it, you are reminded what a wonderful thing democracy is. Read more

To return from the United States to Europe is to travel from a country that thinks it is on the front line of the struggle against jihadist terrorism but is not, to a continent that is on the front line but still has not fully awoken to the fact. Read more

IRAQ IS OVER. Iraq has not yet begun. Read more

SALMAN RUSHDIE, with a little help from her majesty, has again clarified the battle lines on which we stand. Read more