Niall Ferguson

Social networks might promote democracy, but they also empower the enemies of freedom.

With the monetary union coming apart, the finger-pointing has begun. Who really killed Europe?

The way we teach our children history has undermined our chances for success. A leading Harvard historian and NEWSWEEK columnist offers three ways to make it fun.

Obama was right to back a no-fly zone over Libya. But he should have done it weeks ago.

Memo to the president: organic revolutions, just like your Whole Foods arugula, need sunlight and watering. It's time for a new Helsinki, aimed at discrediting all of today's unfree states.

In 1927, Ernest Hemingway published a collection of short stories titled "Men Without Women." Today, less than a century later, it sums up the predicament of a rising proportion of mankind. According to the United Nations, there are far more men than women on the planet.

Most rebellions end in carnage and tyranny. So why are Americans cheering on the Arab revolutionary wave?

In my favorite spaghetti Western, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," there is a memorable scene that sums up the world economy today. Blondie (Clint Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) have finally found the cemetery where they know the gold is buried.

NEWSWEEK's new columnist on Obama's Egypt debacle and the vacuum it exposes.

How the crisis in Greece could lead to the demise of Europe's most ambitious project.

We won the cold war and weathered 9/11. But now economic weakness is endangering our global power.

Forget the fall of the iron curtain: the events of '79 matter more.

A year after the crash, a few financial giants are back to making millions, while average Americans face foreclosure and unemployment. What's wrong with this picture?

When does a rising power become a threat? There is seldom a single moment. A century ago, AngloGerman antagonism was still a relatively new phenomenon; an alliance between the two empires seemed plausible as late as 1899.