Alex von Tunzelmann’s Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire was published last year. She writes a film column for The Guardian Online and is working on a book about the Cold War in the Caribbean.

Time to Make Nice with Cuba

Time to Make Nice with Cuba?

If Obama embraces his popularity in Cuba and abandons the embargo, the Castros will lose an enemy, the region will em...

Posted 6:03 AM | Dec 31, 2008
Sixty Years of Meddling and Bad Blood

Sixty Years of Meddling and Bad Blood

Pakistan, born in the scrabble to decolonize after World War II, has suffered from endless American and British medd...

Posted 7:11 AM | Dec 4, 2008