How naughty-sounding behavior on financial markets became an international fiasco.

Home-schoolers have it in for the U.N. Convention for the Rights of the Child, which only the United States and Somalia have not ratified.

Crucifixes in Italian classrooms, like a cross in the Mojave Desert, attract legal trouble.

A nationalist refrain helps to win electoral gains in Europe.

It’s not just because of Israeli military confrontations, even though incidents rise in tandem when it’s active.

A new generation of Muslims brings Western governments to revisit old ideas about school prayer.

Might a burqa ban herald a new fashion for outlawing religiously inspired dress championed by other faiths?

Religiously inspired polygamy creates a financial burden on the state, something both the United States and France agree on.

Be prepared for a search of what’s on your laptop as you cross into the United States these days.

European officials aren’t the only Westerners wrestling with what Islamic women wear — leaders in Quebec have joined the fray.

How did such an un-American-sounding idea as banning someone’s religiously inspired clothing choice take root in Western countries?

A grand explanation for the Great Information Gather on anyone who crosses an international border.

Whether a government or a private company gathers data, Europeans get nervous.

Will it give European intelligence agencies access to U.S. banking records?

Should the U.S. and Europe bring back the visa? Because “visa-free travel” to America no longer exists

No sooner are new electronic identification methods out on the street than do electronic tricksters (and presumably cyber bad guys) hack them.

How it happened, who will benefit, and how hard will it be to counterfeit these things.

Europe’s newly empowered Parliament’s first muscle flex involves privacy and tracking terrorist finances.

Maybe not, but they should offend most passengers.

… And how not to. The rules are changing, just as the human memory of Nazism fades.

The politics of remembering Allied bombing raids in Dresden pokes at the sensitive spots in Germany’s democracy.

Nazi revisionism in America revolves around the idea that anyone you don’t like gets to be a fascist.

East and West remember World War II in different ways.

The European Union wrestles with ways to foster minority viewpoints without subsidizing tomorrow’s Hitlers.

The case of an avant-garde architect, who defied then assisted the Nazi machine, makes hard and fast judgments difficult.

Russia wrestles with rehabilitating its great Soviet-era wartime leader and homicidal maniac.

The final wave of Nazi trials focuses on now-octogenarian pawns of the end game that was the Holocaust.

As time erodes the ephemera of genocide, the purpose behind preserving every physical bit of atrocity becomes a question for archivists and ethicists.

Like dogs chasing cars, Western powers cruising for Somali pirates are a little stumped about what to do when they’re captured.

A Lloyd’s of Haradheere? Or, how Somali pirates are imitating the West through ad-venture capitalism.

Despite some successes in thwarting Somali pirates, itchy trigger fingers may serve no one’s interests except for private security agencies.

Do Europeans and Americans have different reasons to fear Somali pirates?

Pirate-fightin’ navies find that parking off the Horn of Africa provides cover for counterterrorism and protects scofflaw fishermen.

Counterpiracy strategies, old and new, find historic precedence for both passivity and aggressiveness.

In the new season of piracy, both sides show they’re eager to evolve.

Health care will change an essential American debate, and it’s unlikely to take its cue from anywhere else.

Henry George and his 19th-century manifesto have a renewed relevance during the current U.S. health care debate.

Yes, sort of, answers our correspondent as he compares the landscape of Europe’s smaller states with the ‘United’ ones.

One way America resembles the old Communist bloc can be found in the nexus of abortion and public health care.

A ‘bazaar’ approach to health plans might be the least bizarre way to maintain America’s accidental tradition of medical insurance.