France takes a stricter stance towards the Islamic veil than the U.S. Yet despite legal protections, Muslim women still face discrimination in the U.S. Pakistani women hold a banner during a rally to mark World Hijab Day and show solidarity for Muslim women in France....
President Emmanuel Macron wants to restore France’s grandeur. But will the gestures of his first two months in power lead to concrete results? French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Arc de Triomphe, 3 June 2017. (EPA/...
Taking up arms against fake news, a team of experts in Europe’s capital is highlighting fake news peddled by pro-Kremlin news outlets. Rebel soldiers at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, Eastern Ukraine, 20 July 2014 (EPA/ Robert Ghement) The...
Suffocating bureaucracy, mountainous debt and political instability keep Italy stuck in the past, with little hope for innovative reforms. Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in front of a photo of another former premier, Matteo Renzi, Rome, 21 June 2017....
Immigration is a fact of life in our globalized world. But how can newcomers maintain their cultural identities in an era of Trump and Brexit? Can immigrants maintain their identities and traditions in their new homes? Or should they assimilate fully to ensure...
I urged British voters to stay away from the polls this month. Why? Because the state lacks moral legitimacy. I do not preach violence but urge abstention. Earlier this month, on the day British voters went to the polls for a snap parliamentary election, one of our...
Vote! That’s what students in Britain are being told on election day. But here’s an alternative view: Abstain and withhold your approval of a flawed system. British voters go to the polls today in a snap election that Conservative Prime Minister Theresa...
Video shot from Lorenzo Raffaele’s London flat on June 3. Below are reflections by two students of King’s College London on the attacks in London on Saturday in which militants killed seven people and injured another 48. It could have been me. –...
By Nelson Graves I spent much of last week in the United States, where many conversations naturally turned to politics. A recurrent question came up: “How is it that a centrist like Emmanuel Macron could win the French presidency and defeat a populist opponent,...
This is the last of four articles by students on France’s presidential election. By Maxine Arnheiter Dinner parties have become an interesting staple in my life in France, mostly of a political sort. The blues, reds and whites of the television cast a dull haze...