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German far right’s breakthrough moment
German politics will be dealt a major blow in Sunday’s election. It will be the first time in the country’s post-war history that an openly nationalist, xenophobic, revisionist and anti-European...
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In pictures: For ‘the dispossessed,’ a safe loneliness in Germany
For more than six months, from late 2015 into 2016, I followed thousands of migrants along the Balkan route into Europe — photographing desperate people fleeing from war, poverty and persecution. Most...
View ArticleElephants’ roundtable: A very German election-night ritual
When polls close after Germany’s general election Sunday night, there won’t just be one elephant in the room — there will be six. Chancellor Angela Merkel and her main challengers will gather for a...
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Time for Brussels to ‘go nuclear’ on Warsaw
Poland’s right-wing reactionary Law and Justice (PiS) party came to power less than two years ago. Since then, it has wrecked the country’s legal system and devoured its judiciary, achieving something...
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Desperate Rohingya need European friends
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh — They have been called “the world’s most friendless people” and current events are proving that to be true: Since August 25, more than 400,000 Rohingya have fled violent...
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German defeat: Workers walk out on Europe’s mainstream left
PARIS — As Germany’s Social Democrats lick their wounds after a historic defeat, they face the same question wracking the mainstream left across Europe and the United States: How did we lose the...
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Nasty side of Catalan question deepens rift between ‘two Spains’
BARCELONA — On September 3, a woman tweeted that she had just seen Inés Arrimadas, spokesperson for Spain’s centrist Ciudadanos party, speaking on television and called her “a disgusting b–ch” who...
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Sweden’s literati wrestle with the far right
STOCKHOLM — Scandinavia’s largest literary festival has become the unexpected center of a fierce debate about the boundaries of free speech, after organizers decided to allow a far-right publication to...
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Article 3
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, which brought down the czars and paved the way for the Soviet Union. Fifteen states broke off from that country in 1991, but Russia...
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Catalans don’t want to secede, they want to be heard
MADRID/ZARAGOZA, Spain — At first glance, the Catalan independence campaign’s appeal is obvious. Its simple slogans — “We want to vote” and “The right to decide” — tap into a basic desire for...
View ArticleBorderlands: Life with Russia as a neighbor
Tracing the influence of Russia on 8 countries on its western edge.
View ArticleThe Playboy philosophy
It is no exaggeration to say that Hugh Hefner, the womanizing hedonist and founder of Playboy magazine who died at 91 on Wednesday, helped to define modern American sexual culture. He was “Hef,” an...
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In Iraqi Kurdistan, hope tainted by disappointment over European response
ERBIL, Iraq — His index finger was raised skywards as if he were making tawhid, the declaration of faith that often accompanies a call for jihad. But here in Iraqi Kurdistan, the man’s gesture meant...
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Germany’s Social Democrats need more than just a time-out
BERLIN — Whenever Germany’s Social Democrats are certain that they cannot fall any lower, a cracking sound comes from under their feet. Following last week’s election, in which the SPD brought home one...
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Lament for Catalonia
BARCELONA — The fate of Catalonia, and with it the future of Spain, can only be settled by political negotiation, not by blinkered repression or reckless unilateralism. Sadly, the prospects for...
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Politics of prayer in Kosovo
PRISTINA, Kosovo — In the rectory of Kosovo’s Cathedral of Saint Mother Teresa, a few days ahead of the consecration ceremony in September, Father Lush Gjergji can hardly contain his excitement....
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OMG Britain’s Tories are SO OLD
MANCHESTER, England — The Tories have an age problem. In June’s general election, some two-thirds of British voters aged 18-25 voted Labour. Only one in five voted Conservative. That’s got the party...
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Mark Rutte’s last dance
THE HAGUE — Can the Dutch center hold? That’s the question many will be asking as the Netherlands finally forms a new government after more than six months of sluggish coalition negotiations. Prime...
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Britain, divided
A country divided; that’s how Britain has felt since last year’s vote to leave the European Union. Remoaners versus Hard Brexiteers, all shades of gray abandoned. But what if Britain was literally,...
View ArticleTheresa May’s warring Tories can’t negotiate Brexit
LONDON — As MPs return to Westminster after the annual conference season, the contrast between the two major parties’ approach to Brexit could not be clearer. Labour is working in the national...
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