The Slowthai Remix
The Battleground’s Spring Book List
The Battleground Guide to Winter Books
Italy’s Strongman Complex: The Brando Benifei Interview
Salvini is always the winner. Peruse most major news media on the 2019 EU elections, and when you hit Italy, it’s always the case.(...)
The Battleground Guide to Summer Books (And One Magazine)
For the last six months, populism has been the only game in town. If it’s not Salvini it’s been Salvini. Not only was the topic over-reported. Predictions of his triumph were wrong.(...)
The Anna Momigliano Interview
Few countries occupy as difficult a place in European news as Italy. Only reported on when there’s an economic crisis or a tabloid-style story about its flamboyant political leaders — read Silvio Berlusconi, or, Matteo Salvini — Italy screams out for more considered coverage.(...)
Identity Politics in ex-Soviet Europe
Few areas of news coverage are as new to religion as it is to Europe. Particularly for journalists from the United States and the Middle East, where faith and politics are ineluctably intertwined.(...)
The Maxim Edwards Interview, Part I
Maxim Edwards cuts a decidedly retro figure. Not for his ideas, or analyses, but his sense of geography. For nearly a decade, Edwards has made the post-Soviet sphere his stomping grounds. (...)
The Battleground, in Conversation with Anna Ahronheim
France Sending Mixed Signals
He is the perfect straw man. For anyone looking to discredit the gilets jaunes, Victor Alfonso Lenta is their man.(...)