John Foster / 13 Sep 2019
Coming Up for Air
The Populist Interregnum
Describing his time in Nazi prison camps in the 1930s, Paul Massing noted that the experience was much more difficult for those outside his political party.(...)
Editorial
Joel Schalit / 11 Sep 2019
Dangerous Outsiders
The European Commission’s New Migrant Brand
Nationalism is here to stay. The far-right may never take over the European Commission. But its politics are now mainstream and have changed the way the executive frames multiculturalism.(...)
Heather Allansdottir / 09 Sep 2019
Sarajevo to the West
Susan Sontag’s War
When Zdravko Grebo, a legal scholar at the University of Sarajevo, died this year, it seemed to many Sarajevans the end of an era: the last of his generation, of dissident, socialist anti-fundamentalist Bosnian thinkers who embodied the best of Yugoslav dynamism and spoke to the hope – as Sarajevo has often stood for – that Europe can carve out a space between totalitarianism and late capitalism alike.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 06 Sep 2019
The Art of the Con
Trump’s Greenland Fakeout
When the word got out that Donald Trump had expressed interest in purchasing Greenland for the United States, reaction varied a great deal. (...)
Josh Kitto / 04 Sep 2019
The United States of Britain
Brexit Means Identity Crisis
How many justices of the UK Supreme Court can you name? It's a flippant question to pose, especially to British politicians and journalists. Chances are, they'll only be able to cite American ones.(...)
Josh White / 02 Sep 2019
Leave to Remain
The Northern View
Bolsover is a long way from Westminster. It’s an old mining town, mostly white British and ageing, where the factories have closed and the mines have been filled in. This is Labour country, but it’s also Brexit country, too.(...)
John Foster / 30 Aug 2019
Read Between the Lines
The Battleground Fall Books List
Do you ever get the feeling that you’re living through some kind of crazy dystopian novel? (...)
Joel Schalit / 28 Aug 2019
Rebranding Italian Politics
The Post-Salvini Era
The more you call them populist, the more likely they'll turn into one.(...)
Joel Schalit / 23 Aug 2019
The Russia Among Us
Berlin Ground Zero
Russia never goes out of style. Whether it's blamed for subverting democracy, or praised for its role in defeating fascism, the country gets linked to everything in world politics.(...)