Berlin Wall

Mexican officials took aim at the United States' immigration policies by installing a concrete slab of the Berlin Wall within feet away from the US Border Wall that separates California from Tijuana, Mexico. Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero directed the 3-ton Cold War relic to be installed in Friendship Park in…

As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away. The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab sits next to a lighthouse and the border wall, which extends into the Pacific Ocean.“May…

Culture For students today, the fall of the Berlin Wall is ancient history, if they know about it at all. I still remember it like it was yesterday, those famous words spoken by President Ronald Reagan on June 12, 1987 at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down…

On this day on June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan’s call to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down the Berlin Wall" became widely considered a defining moment of the Reagan presidency, according to Stanford University.  The line, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall," also came to be a profound…

BERLIN (AP) — Hans Modrow, who served as East Germany’s last communist leader during a turbulent tenure that ended in the country’s first and only free election, has died. He was 95. Modrow died early Saturday, the Left party parliamentary group tweeted. Modrow, a reform-minded communist, took over East Germany…

In a pivot away from Russian gas, Germany cut energy consumption to its lowest level since the Berlin Wall fell – but increased coal burning Germany’s carbon dioxide emissions held steady last year, jeopardising the country’s climate targets as higher use of oil and coal offset lower energy consumption and…

A Crack in the Great Covid Wall of China We can now see that the fight against Covid lockdowns is global. The official liberal narrative—that opposition to lockdowns was just “Ron Death Santis” and cranky ultra-conservatives in red states—has long since been shot to hell. For freedom-loving Americans, it’s heartening to…

AP Photo/Joe Marquette, Pool, File From the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11, we had relative peace and prosperity. It was an opportunity to salve some festering national wounds. We squandered it completely—and helped give rise to the crises we're dealing with today. Read Full Article » Read More

On the evening of November 9, 1989, thousands of East Germans—including a 35-year-old chemist named Angela Merkel—peacefully crossed into West Berlin amid chaos and the confusion at the Berlin Wall. Within hours, the gates of the most notorious symbol of the Cold War opened for good, as champagne flowed and…

The following is an excerpt from Wild Places by Sarah Baxter. From deathly divide to life line. Few would have foreseen that the dark, decades long fracturing of a continent would give the earth such respite, foster such green shoots, see natural connections spring from such grisly division. And yet,…