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How not to write about Rio
RIO DE JANEIRO — With an estimated 30,000 journalists set to descend on Rio de Janeiro to cover the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, we can expect samba beats, aerial beach shots and moving stories...
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Whoever leads UKIP is no threat to Theresa May
LONDON — Britain is in the midst of two party leadership contests that could reshape the political landscape for decades to come — and lead to the Conservative Party enjoying a new era of dominance....
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Russia will do what it wants in Rio
The Olympic jamboree starts Friday in Rio de Janeiro. In the run-up to the Games, as the organizers scrambled to iron out all the traditional last-minute snags, they faced a thorny social problem:...
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A farewell to Aleppo
Over the past four years, the Aleppo I fell in love with has ceased to exist, its slow and painful four-year-long death now dramatically accelerated by Russian smart bombs and Syrian regime dumb...
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Brexit, a matter of life and death
As anyone who has got a divorce can confirm, the initial decision for one partner to walk out on the other is the easy part. It’s all downhill from there. Lawyers get involved. It can take years before...
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Politicians: Leave your advisers at home
“He’s ready for you now. Please come this way.” No matter how comfortable you are in the presence of powerful people, and no matter how familiar you are with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Her...
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Aberdeen’s oil curse
ABERDEEN, Scotland — The Aberdeen Food Bank Partnership is housed in a former fish-filleting warehouse a stone’s throw from the docks, its shelves lined with boxes of tea and porridge oats, packets of...
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Erdoğan and Putin reignite the bromance
ISTANBUL — The long-standing friendship between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is due to resume after a 10-month interruption as the two strongmen meet for a summit in St....
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Putin’s latest Crimean gambit
Curiously, it took Russia four full days after an alleged attack by Ukrainian special forces in Crimea to make a public statement about the event. On August 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin took to...
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Why Donald Trump is dangerous for Eastern Europe
The escalating situation in Crimea and the U.S. presidential campaign have more than a few things in common, but two of them are Russian President Vladimir Putin and a dearth of facts. It remains...
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Why Trump is right to raise questions about nuclear weapons
Among the novel notions that have tumbled casually from Donald Trump’s mouth in recent months is this rather unnerving observation about nuclear weapons: “If we have them, why can’t we use them?” he...
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Russia’s season of menace
MOSCOW — August in Moscow is a season of brooding heat broken by sudden rainstorms, of bathing in chilly rivers and experiencing pangs of regret for a summer that never quite happened. Also, it’s...
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Refugees under the Tuscan sun
BORGO SAN LORENZO, Italy — The first hint that Ethnos is not your typical Tuscan restaurant is the smell coming from the kitchen; it’s stronger and spicier than the usual Italian aromas. Nestled in the...
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Why Slovakia won’t embrace migration
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — L’uboš Blaha calls himself a Marxist philosopher. A rising star in Slovakia’s center-left Direction-Social Democracy party (SMER), Blaha has adorned his office with busts of Che...
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Islamic State’s Asian offensive
BANGKOK — Southeast Asia could become ISIL’s next base, as the terrorist organization seeks to expand its operations outside of the Middle East and North Africa. Organizations inspired by ISIL (Islamic...
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Lament from a country on the brink
Between a rock and a hard place — that seems to be Italy’s niche in a crowded world. How it ended up there is a long story; but suffice to say, Italy has no one to blame but itself. Or, more...
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Turkey: Brussels, you’ve got a problem
The failed coup attempt in Turkey marked a turning point not only for Turkish society but also for relations between the country and Brussels. The European Union portrays itself as a guardian of...
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The forgotten government plan to round up Muslims
In the early morning hours of January 26, 1987, federal agents across Los Angeles charged into the homes of seven men and one woman and led them away in handcuffs. More than 100 law enforcement...
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Voltaire’s burkini
It is entirely appropriate that a Corsican mayor should have leapt early on to the burkini bandwagon by banning the wearing of such clothing on his beaches. The mayor of Sisco followed the example of...
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Viktor Orbán’s Potemkin referendum
On October 2, Hungarians will vote in a referendum on Europe’s plan to relocate refugees throughout the continent. The controversial vote is being heavily promoted by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and...
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