Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York. — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
The lesson for the next U.S. president: Raise the taxes on fuel. A lot. — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder. — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Recorded engine sounds, however, are a deliberate deception. They're like going to a concert and listening to a recording. On the other hand, I… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Bus routes reach the most obscure corners of Paris. There's also the Metro - and especially the great Line No. 1, which runs on… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war and Communism.… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
