The Wagner Group Explained
July 7, 2023
John Mauceri— Among the many confusions about the private Russian army known as the Wagner Group is how to pronounce its name. Reporters and pundits seem to vacillate between “Wag-ner”… READ MORE
Tag: Europe
Prologue: Our Time
May 4, 2023
In a small front room, amid the unfamiliar smells of Gauloise tobacco smoke and strong black coffee, I sit with my French host family staring at a small black-and-white television… READ MORE
New Directions Toward a Clean Energy Future
February 23, 2023
Daniel S. Cohan— After reaffirming the Paris Agreement on his first day in office, President Biden in November 2021 issued a national strategy for achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by… READ MORE
“Digging Europe’s Grave:” Thomas Piketty on Franco-German Tax Policy
November 16, 2022
Thomas Piketty— To love Europe is to want to change it. The French and German governments which have been in power for the past ten years claim to be Europhiles,… READ MORE
The Battle over European Politics
July 22, 2020
Luuk van Middelaar— In the torrent of words devoted to European politics, it is possible to distinguish three basic discourses. We might label them ‘the Europe of States’, ‘the Europe… READ MORE
The End of Europe?
May 11, 2018
James Kirchick— As you read this, Europe is undergoing convulsions greater than anything it has experienced in decades. Just five years after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, the European Union,… READ MORE
The Future of European Muslims
October 3, 2016
From our London office: In recent months, the rise of far-right parties in different European countries and events such as the UK’s vote for Brexit have prompted heated debates about immigration and… READ MORE
The Price of the Carthaginian Policy in Greece
June 24, 2016
James K. Galbraith— In the United States we do not consider that there is such a thing as a people of Florida or Rhode Island or even of Texas, who… READ MORE
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