Sweden

Stockholm denies pursuing herd immunity. But internal emails show Swedish officials were resigned to mass infections all along.

Swedes can’t figure out their government’s coronavirus approach, a progressive push on U.S. foreign policy, and an honest assessment of the Arab Spring’s fallout.

The country’s contrarian approach to the COVID-19 pandemic was meant to prove that trust in authorities could avert lockdowns. Instead, mixed messaging and political squabbles have led to an exploding epidemic.

From socialism to the coronavirus, a unified theory for why everyone thinks Swedes have all the answers.

Those who used to scoff at its mismanagement should take note of Rome’s strategy for defeating COVID-19.

Western countries need national service programs, and Germany is leading the way.

Many countries have criticized the Swedish government’s lax lockdown, but the deadly mistakes of defunding elder care and decentralizing public health oversight were made before anyone had heard of COVID-19.

A disastrous pandemic and the botched Olof Palme investigation have one thing in common: Swedes’ belief that they’re special.

The government expects citizens to freely follow its advice—but not all ethnic groups have equal access to expertise.

The Scandinavian country believes its distinctive high-trust culture will protect it from needing to shut down for the pandemic.

Communism and democratic socialism won’t heal today’s political divisions. But social democracy—which helped ward off extremism following World War II—could.

Feeling guilty for the carbon burned on your last flight? The Germans have a word for that.

The Nordic countries show the limits, not successes, of Bernie Sanders’s plans.

A 1963 U.S. intelligence assessment underscores how many countries—even Sweden—were exploring nuclear weapons programs at the height of the Cold War.

National security depends on a vanishing sense of community.