As Germany celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I can’t help remembering my spooky 1971 visit during the Cold War. When we crossed back to the West, tour buses were emptied ...

The lesson for cynics: things that seem permanent can collapse with stunning speed. The Cold War lasted 45 agonizing years.

Sources:Geoportal Berlin (the Berlin Wall route); City of Berlin (remains); Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur (location of segments); NCD-RisC (mean height) A reporter searches for a ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall that separated East and West Berlin fell. The wall was first built in August 1961 to prevent East Germans from fleeing to West Germany during ...

Lawrence O'Donnell likened President Donald Trump's loosening grip on Congress to the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The MS NOW host began Thursday's episode of "The Last Word" by highlighting ...

The 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, plus Veterans Day this week. Both are huge events for one Putnam County man, who shared his incredible adventure abroad with us, and how he brought ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 heralded the end of communism in Europe, but Foreign Policy's Jefferey N. Wasserstrom argues it may have cemented the Communist Party's place in China. With China's ...

In 1991, Art in America’s contributing editor for Germany, David Galloway, flagged down a cab in East Berlin and asked his driver to take him to the equivalent of Bloomingdale’s in West Berlin. His ...

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

What's left of the wall transcends the Cold War. Nov. 4, 2009 -- FULTON, Mo. — Twenty years after it fell, the Berlin Wall has spread around the world, morphing en route from an instrument of ...

Lawrence O’Donnell likened President Donald Trump’s loosening grip on Congress to the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The MS NOW host began Thursday’s episode of “The Last Word” by highlighting ...