History lessons: 17 women on Kamala Harris’ VP chances
Will it be different this time? Female vice presidential candidates appeared on major party tickets in 1984 and 2008, and in 2016, a woman headed the ticket. Each time, headlines heralded the historic...
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An algorithm shouldn’t decide a student’s future
Hye Jung Han is a children’s rights researcher and advocate at Human Rights Watch. Graduating into a global pandemic was never going to be easy. But for some in the high school class of COVID-19, their...
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Belarusians have rejected Lukashenko. So should the EU.
Joerg Forbrig is senior fellow and director for Central and Eastern Europe at the German Marshall Fund of the United States think tank. European Union foreign ministers will convene Friday against the...
View ArticleHow Boris Johnson is failing Africa
Stephen Doughty is the Labour Party’s shadow Africa minister. Much has changed for the better since 2005, when then British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa set out a powerful case...
View Article‘Three Seas’ central to Central Europe’s recovery
Georgette Mosbacher is U.S. ambassador to Poland. The coronavirus pandemic has not only imposed tragic humanitarian costs on our societies, it has also broadsided our economies. The shutdown of...
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In Belarus’ poker game, Russia holds a winning hand
Keir Giles is a senior consulting fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. Long-term watchers of Belarus are accustomed to hearing that “this time it’s different.” The country’s...
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Preparing for the next Lebanon or Belarus
Nathalie Tocci is director of Istituto Affari Internazionali, a special adviser to European High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell, and the author of POLITICO‘s World View column. Her...
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In Belarus, fighting for democracy — and LGBTQ rights
Andrei Zavalei is a queer activist in Belarus. I have a pidor family. In Belarusian (as well as Russian and Ukrainian), pidor means “faggot.” It’s a derogatory word. I know I should use the term...
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The emotional cost of coronavirus
MILAN — When I received the birthday party invitation, I replied automatically with a convinced and happy “yes.” Up until February, I would never have thought twice about it. And since Italy has...
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How a Swedish pop star took on China’s censors
Elisabeth Braw directs the Modern Deterrence project at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. LONDON — Earlier this month, in an interview about a new music video,...
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Why the EU’s targeted sanctions on Belarus won’t work
Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach is a Belarusian journalist and program coordinator at Free Press Unlimited. WARSAW — There’s no reason to believe that targeted sanctions will solve the problem in Belarus....
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Russians ask: Is Putin’s coronavirus vaccine the real deal?
Vijai Maheshwari is a writer and entrepreneur based in Moscow. He tweets at @Vijaimaheshwari. MOSCOW — Not since underdog Russia beat Spain on penalties in Moscow during the 2018 World Cup have...
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Sweden counts cost of not letting coronavirus spoil its routine
STOCKHOLM — In my Stockholm suburb, the start of the school year last Wednesday was so 2019. My teenage daughter was nearly late for class, my 10-year old son complained about the school lunch, and...
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Connecting Croatia on a bridge built by China
An aerial photo taken in February shows the construction site of the Peljesac Bridge | Gao Lei/Xinhua via Belga DUBROVNIK — Croatia is building a bridge to an island that is not an island. Since the...
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Why Phil Hogan will survive ‘golfgate’
Tim King writes POLITICO‘s Brussels Sketch. The scandal rocking Irish politics is making life uncomfortable for Phil Hogan. But when it comes to resignations, there’s one rule for domestic politicians...
View ArticleA new threat to press freedom: Lawsuits
Misha Glenny is a British journalist. Alexandra Borchardt is a journalism professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. Václav Štětka is a senior lecturer at Loughborough University. Aleksander...
View ArticleWhy Phil Hogan has to go
Mark MacGann Founder, advisory firm Moonshot Ventures Amsterdam, Netherlands In his piece “Why Phil Hogan will survive ‘golfgate‘” (August 24), POLITICO columnist Tim King concludes that despite his...
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Why Phil Hogan (eventually) had to go
Tim King writes POLITICO‘s Brussels Sketch. Trade negotiators are famous for their mastery of technical detail, but Phil Hogan just lost his job as the EU’s top trade negotiator because the...
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How to rescue Belarus and Europe’s ‘gray zone’ from Russia
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the Europe At Large column. PARIS — The sight of hundreds of thousands of Belarusian citizens demonstrating peacefully for an end to dictatorship...
View ArticleWho can replace Lukashenko in Belarus?
Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach is a Belarusian journalist and program coordinator at Free Press Unlimited. WARSAW — Protests in Belarus have sparked feverish debates about a potential transition of power in...
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