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The next Koch doesn’t like politics
Last May, Chase Koch, the 41-year-old son of billionaire businessman Charles Koch, gathered about two dozen wealthy young professionals for a weekend retreat in Vail. This was no regular Koch...
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PARIS — Mohsin Hamid’s “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” is the story of a Pakistani man’s tormented journey as he seeks a better life in self-imposed exile in the United States. Unlikely as it may sound,...
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EU citizens still welcome after Brexit
The United Kingdom’s departure from the EU means an end to freedom of movement between the two, but the British government still wants EU citizens to know they are very welcome to come to Britain to...
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Putin is tightening his grip on Ukraine
KIEV — Ukraine’s Christmas markets may be in full swing, but the season isn’t feeling particularly festive this year. Our thoughts are with the 24 Ukrainian sailors who were attacked and captured by...
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Best of Brexit: A Christmas reading list
LONDON — Christmas is traditionally a time of giving and peace on Earth. But it may not be all that cheery in Britain this year. Brexit has frayed everyone’s nerves. If the never-ending political chaos...
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Der Spiegel’s first-class faker
HAMBURG — Fake news wasn’t invented by the Russians. The New York Times had Jayson Blair, who faked dozens of articles and interviews over the years. U.S.A. Today had Jack Kelley, who made up...
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Europe will never feel safe with a Trump White House
Among America’s European allies, Jim Mattis was seen as a bulwark against Donald Trump’s most destructive tendencies. A rare source of stability to counter an unpredictable and undiplomatic White...
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‘I am the woman Trump hates’
CLEVELAND — Connie Schultz stood at her stove this week and stirred a big pot of thick vegetarian chili. On the long brown table set and waiting for lunch was a copy of that day’s New York Times,...
View ArticleHoliday wishes from the EU to you!
Happy Holidays, Europe! It’s that time of year again: time for the annual Christmas letter you didn’t ask for and probably won’t read — even though it’s super-important and relevant to you, the...
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Catholic establishment vs. Salvini
ROME — At the close of the electoral campaign for Italy’s right-wing League party in February in Milan, its leader Matteo Salvini held up a rosary and a bible, swearing a sacred oath of loyalty to the...
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Europe’s neo-colonial African urbanism
BAMAKO, Mali — In August 1936, the legendary architect Le Corbusier studied the existing maps of Addis Ababa, tore them up, and started from scratch. He had of course never visited the Ethiopian...
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Brexit Britain will be just fine
LONDON — There’s some James Bond film in which a power-crazed baddie is planning to blow up the world and a timer has been activated. In the closing scenes at the villain’s lair, the countdown,...
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Bosnia’s migrant route bottleneck
BIHAĆ, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Two young Pakistani men gaze from the windows of a half-empty bus snaking its way through northern Bosnia-Herzegovina; the mountains are dusted white with the first snow of...
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Italian education reform? Just look outside
Educating children in the great outdoors is not new. “Forest schools,” as they’re known, first appeared in Denmark in the 1950s. But on paper, Italy — which historically has taken a conservative...
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How to get ahead in 2019: Become a bully
MOSCOW — Bullies in popular culture are often portrayed as cowardly aggressors who prey on the weak, but fear the strong. Challenged by an authority figure, they’re more likely to bolt than stand their...
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6 post-Cold War taboos Europe must now face
Post-Cold War Europe is facing unprecedented strategic challenges. The rise of China has become America’s principal foreign policy concern, to which its relations with its European allies will be...
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What a decade this year has been
2018 started with uncertainty surrounding the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union and the president of the United States declaring that he’s “a very stable genius.” It’s ending with, well,...
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The other Khashoggi
An opposition journalist disappears. Anonymous tapes hint at his gruesome murder. An autocrat selling himself as a pro-Western reformer, beset by intrigue at home, is blamed for the death. In moral...
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Welcome/Unwelcome: African migrants in southern Italy
In the three months following Matteo Salvini’s appointment as Italy’s interior minister, the United Nations described a “dangerous acceleration” in attacks on immigrants: 56 physical assaults, 14...
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British Jews look to Germany for Brexit ‘insurance policy’
LONDON — Sally Geppert, a legal secretary from Cologne, was 27 when she arrived in the U.K. on the last day of August 1939 — one of tens of thousands of German Jews who fled the Nazis and found refuge...
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