Josh White / 10 Jul 2019
No Option But Remain
Corbyn Gives In
It was about time. After months of internal party squabbles, Jeremy Corbyn has decided to take a much more pro-Remain position in a fresh referendum call. (...)
Politics
Matt Rubenstein / 08 Jul 2019
The Post-Ideological Party
The Greens and German Politics, Part II
Blame it on the climate crisis. That’s what the German press has done. Winning 20.5% of the national vote in this year’s EU elections, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (the Greens) nearly doubled their 2014 showing.(...)
Sean Quinn / 05 Jul 2019
The Law of the Sea, the Law of the Land
A True Tale of a Captain, a Judge and a Bullyboy Minister
Pity Il Capitano. Italy’s macho deputy premier is having a rough week being bested by highly-skilled women.(...)
The Appeal of Victory
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.(...)
Mitchell Plitnick / 03 Jul 2019
To Hell With Europe
Trump and American Hostility
Watching American news coverage of the 2019 G20 summit in Osaka last weekend, you could forgive audiences in the United States for thinking there were no Europeans represented.(...)
Matt Rubenstein / 01 Jul 2019
Hard to Pin Down
The Greens and German Politics, Part I
At least German pollsters had gotten it right. There was no populist sweep of the country’s parliamentary seats in the 2019 EU elections.(...)
Joel Schalit / 26 Jun 2019
Turkey From Israel
The View From Above
I could see Istanbul from the plane. Staring out of the Cessna window at the sprawling city below, from the coastline to the horizon, it was hard to believe that there was anything else to Turkey.(...)
Josh White / 24 Jun 2019
The Death of the Iran Deal
European Foreign Policy, American Reality
We’ve all seen it before. The parade of missiles through Tehran and the lockstep procession of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.(...)
John Foster / 21 Jun 2019
Just Call It Propaganda
The Fake News Phenomenon
The formation of public opinion was always the purview of the state.(...)
Sean Quinn / 19 Jun 2019
Circular Firing Squads
The Self-Defeating Italian Left
The corpses of security guards lay strewn among broken glass and crumpled cars on Via Fani. A dead body, displayed in fetal position, in the trunk of a red Renault 4 and a dejected, thin-faced man with a wry smile posed before the flag of his captors.(...)