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Weaker European economies chafe against an anti-democratic euro.
Europe must accept that post-nationalism, by nature, is porous at its borders.
The Front National is not in government, but it’s still making gains.
The history of terrorism in France offers lessons in how best to respond to the Paris attacks.
Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the UK Labour Party, is helping to revive the radical left.
Refugee camps, intended to be temporary, host people for an average of 12 years.
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France's own political traditions can accommodate visible Islam and heal social divisions.
Scotland’s independence referendum is a contest between the head and the heart, between love and money.
In the face of Putin's rejection of democracy, Europe’s democrats must underscore the importance of the EU’s norms: social justice, sustainability, diplomacy, diversity, and freedom of movement.
Guardian journalist Uki Goñi discusses his career reporting from Buenos Aires.
Yascha Mounk explores Jewish identity in modern Germany.
Ahren Warner strikes a seductive compact between the older and younger camps of British poetry.
The biggest threat to Greece's left-wing coalition is itself.
Migrants are dying as they cross the Mediterranean. Is there a better way?
A wheeling book of aspirations and frustrations, London: A History in Verse offers us a literary treasury: a record of the city, a roll of its events.
The cause of Camus's native countrymen moved him, yet he yearned helplessly toward the European culture that had formed him.
When two scientists discover a book looted by the Nazis, they seek out the rightful heir and in the process explore the reparations process of early postwar days.
In France, a Strange, Last-Ditch Campaign Against Marriage Equality
“Adolf is coming,” warned Liana Kanelli, Greek communist and Member of Parliament, during our July interview in her office in the parliament building in central Athens.
Srđan Dragojević’s film about the aspirations of gay Serbs may finally be puncturing a culture of homophobia.
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