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Welcome to Agadez, smuggling capital of Africa
AGADEZ, Niger — Once, caravans brought gold and salt to this small mud-brick desert town. Today, it has become a major trading post for arms, drugs and, above all, humans. After the fall of Libyan...
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Why we lost the Brexit vote
ONDON — Nearly four months have passed since I joined a small group of aides in former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron’s cramped Downing Street office to review his resignation speech one final time....
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The Polish case for less economic liberalism
In the years following the 2008 financial crisis, Poland was widely praised for its economic performance. But this image — of an oasis of economic stability in a sea of European crisis — belies a far...
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Central Europe does not need saving
Central Europe is commonly seen as a region where democracy is in peril. But while Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and Hungarians are certainly facing populist threats, so are many Western countries. What makes...
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A city divided, on the brink of ruin
I am used to mourning the cities I didn’t get to see before they turned to ruins: Kabul, Baghdad, Aleppo and many others. It never occurred to me that someone would come to feel the same way about...
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Get ready for Merkexit
Brexit might be the biggest challenge European leaders may be facing in the coming year. But it’s not the only one. The turmoil in the United Kingdom has overshadowed the possibility of another...
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Donald Trump talks like a woman
In the 2016 presidential contest, there has been one thing that supporters and detractors of Donald Trump have agreed on. The chest-pounding real estate mogul from New York has emerged as the...
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How the European Left can survive
These are terrible times for center-left parties in Europe. Social Democrats were defeated in Spain, Croatia and Ireland this year, and suffered crushing losses in Lithuania and the Czech Republic. In...
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Women are right to boycott Iran’s chess tournament
Not since 1979, when leading American feminist Kate Millett joined thousands of women in protest of Iran’s revolutionary officials’ plan to reinstitute mandatory veiling, have Iranian women had a...
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Russia falls back in love with Ivan the Terrible
ORYOL, Russia — In 1947, Josef Stalin summoned film director Sergei Eisenstein to the Kremlin to discuss his movie, “Ivan the Terrible.” While Stalin had enjoyed the first installment of the...
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These are the real heroes of Hungary’s 1956 revolution
The article “Viktor Orbán’s revision of the 1956 revolution” (October 23) reflects a biased use of sources and treatment of Hungary’s national holiday. This is unbecoming of the quality we have come to...
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Populist anger is ‘a gift wrapped in barbed wire’
The Flemish author and poet David Van Reybrouck has spent his career writing about those whose voices are only rarely heard. His books include a travelogue set in post-apartheid South Africa and an...
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Europe needs a new newsroom
Fears are growing that the European Union’s unpopularity will undermine its survival. Assailed by Euroskeptic politicians and riven internally by disagreements between member governments, the EU’s...
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The other time Vladimir Putin swung an election
The American pre-election season is disquieting enough, but for those of us who witnessed the October 2012 parliamentary election in the Republic of Georgia, it is particularly sinister. What I saw in...
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A business solution to the refugee crisis
The fate of so many refugees fleeing war and persecution is tragic. Those who survive the dangerous sea crossing to Europe are forced into overcrowded and undersupplied refugee camps or preyed upon by...
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How Putin became the Che Guevara of the Right
“He’s a Kremlin puppet!” has been a clarion call for those rallying to stop U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump. But his public pro-Putin positions, and a few unfounded Kremlin links thrown in by...
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Can Europe survive a Trump presidency?
With the benefit of hindsight, none of this will look surprising to future generations. An anemic economic recovery, anxieties about immigration, structural changes that made redundant the skill sets...
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Will Trump follow in Reagan’s footsteps?
Just when you thought things couldn’t get much worse for the European Union after Britain’s vote to leave the bloc, along comes Donald Trump. The anti-establishment Republican outsider’s upset election...
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One country’s terrorism is another’s tourism
SOFIA, Bulgaria — The Eastern Mediterranean has its fair share of human misery, economic chaos and political violence, but there is a silver lining. Just ask a Bulgarian tour operator. A combination of...
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Make Eastern Europe safe again
In the past few years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has changed European borders with war and other machinations and cast a long shadow across the Baltic states. Russia’s neighbors now also face...
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