Abuse report on the Catholic Church in France — a shock, but not a surprise
Tom Heneghan is a former religion editor for Reuters. He now writes from Paris for the Tablet in London. PARIS — A report outlining the scale of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in France over the...
View ArticleWhy the rule of law matters
Paul Taylor, a contributing editor at POLITICO, writes the “Europe At Large” column. PARIS — If anyone in Europe doubted why the rule of law matters, the Continent’s turbulent politics in the last few...
View ArticleSlippery business: Of fish, France and Britain
John Lichfield is a former foreign editor of the Independent and was the newspaper’s Paris correspondent for 20 years. CALVADOS, France — In terms of economic importance, fish are sprats; politically,...
View ArticleWhat the 14th century plague tells us about how COVID-19 will change politics
Daniel W. Gingerich is associate professor of politics, director of the Quantitative Collaborative, and co-director of the Corruption Laboratory for Ethics, Accountability and the Rule of Law (CLEAR...
View ArticleWhy all French politicians are Gaullists
CALVADOS, France — In his lifetime, Charles de Gaulle was a divisive figure: revered by some, detested by others. He was adulated. He was mocked. He was finally rejected. No longer. Half a century...
View Article‘Worse than war’ — a dispatch from the Polish-Belarusian border
Urszula Glensk is a professor of documentary literature and literary criticism at the University of Wrocław’s Institute of Journalism and Social Communication. This piece was translated by Soren...
View ArticleThe Channel blame game
John Lichfield is a former foreign editor of the Independent and was the newspaper’s Paris correspondent for 20 years. How depressing to see the French and British leaders squabbling over...
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In pictures: As Russia tightens its grip on Kyiv, Ukrainians take stock — and...
OPTICS As Russia tightens its grip on Kyiv, Ukrainians take stock — and go to ground As dawn broke on Friday, it was time to survey the damage from missiles launched on the city overnight. Above:...
View ArticleIn UK, wind shifts against Russian money
Oliver Bullough is the author of “Butler to the World: How Britain became the servant of oligarchs, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals,” which will be published on March 10. LONDON — The first man...
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War in the palm of your hand
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK WAR IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND It’s deeply discomfiting to see the invasion of Ukraine being converted into a giant spectator sport. Illustration by Ricardo Tomás for POLITICO Ben...
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In pictures: A border crossing to safety
OPTICS A CROSSING TO SAFETY A bus carrying Ukrainian refugees arrives at a processing center in Moszczany, Poland. | Photographs by Bradley Secker for POLITICO ON THE POLAND/UKRAINE BORDER More than...
View ArticleThe fall of Moscow
Vijai Maheshwari was until this week a writer and entrepreneur based in Moscow. He tweets @Vijaimaheshwari. When I was an aspiring writer in the humiliated Moscow of the 1990s, I remember admiring...
View ArticleThe power of a story: Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Ronald Reagan remake
Otto English is the pen name used by Andrew Scott, a writer and playwright based in London. Waging a war is, in no small part, about establishing a narrative, and nobody knew that better than Winston...
View ArticleFrance’s #MeToo battle has just begun
Alice Kantor is a French journalist who grew up in Paris. The backlash to the backlash began with Caroline De Haas.The politician, businesswoman and then leader of France’s feminist #NousToutes...
View ArticleForged by war: Ukraine’s new sense of nationhood
Russia faced no military resistance annexing Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula after it invaded in 2014. And when the Kremlin grabbed a large chunk of the Donbas region via proxies, for many months, there...
View ArticleBallistic missiles won’t make the difference in the Donbas — drones will
Russia’s foes should think again. That was President Vladimir Putin’s message as he observed the successful test firing of an ultra-advanced intercontinental missile, dubbed Satan 2 by Western...
View ArticleIn case you missed it, the war in Ukraine just got hotter
Russia’s war in Ukraine is at risk of morphing into something even more dangerous. With political strategies, military tactics and war aims on both sides shifting this week, the possibility of a...
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Fate of Bosnian refugees offers bitter lessons for Ukraine
Bosnian Muslim women visit one of the sites of the 1995 mass execution of their loved ones, on July 13, 2020 in Potočari near Srebrenica | Damir Sagolj/Getty Images Fate of Bosnian refugees offers...
View ArticleWhat will Putin pull out of his ‘Victory Day’ hat?
Russia’s Victory Day has had an evolving makeover during President Vladimir Putin’s reign.Increasingly militarizing the commemorative holiday, with more advanced military hardware showcased and...
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In pictures: Ukrainians aren’t the only ones running from Russia
OPTICS Lives, relocated: The families fleeing Russia for Turkey Leonid and Anastasia Pashin left Moscow with their son, Daniel, and their cat, Asya, two days after Russia launched its assault on...
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