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Italy Decides Its Identity
Rome wasn’t built in a day. The reconstruction of modern Italy, likewise, has been slow and taxing. Former Prime Minister and billionaire...
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Dec 4, 20166 min read


Europe’s America: The Rise of Populism
Over the course of the last few months, the entire world has waited with bated breath for the results of the US elections. As a result,...
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Nov 29, 20166 min read


Aleppo, al-Assad, and Alliances: Putin’s Newest Propaganda Scheme
During the Cold War, global politics were characterized by the notion of bipolarity: The United States and the Soviet Union were...
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Nov 28, 20166 min read


Separatism Rises Anew in Cataluña
Four years ago, a mass demonstration in Barcelona to celebrate La Diada, Cataluña’s national holiday, triggered the latest in a long line...
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Nov 13, 20164 min read


The French Educational Algorithm of Inefficiency
Much like in the US presidential election, politicians in France must grapple with complex issues involving public education. The...
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Nov 8, 20166 min read


It’s Complicated: Germany and Turkey’s troubled free speech relationship
This July, a sea of red flags emboldened with crescent moons swept over a reeling nation. Just two weeks after Turkey’s failed coup...
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Nov 6, 20167 min read


#FertilityDay: Italy fails to get fertility trending
Beauty is ageless. Fertility is not.” “Don’t let your sperm go up in smoke.” These were just two of the dozen social media-ready taglines...
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Nov 6, 20167 min read


Sharing Isn’t Caring: The Perils of the Trendiest New Economic Sector
While sitting in heavy traffic, it is easy to fall into conversation with your taxi driver. In one such conversation, my taxi driver in...
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Nov 4, 20166 min read


The Maltese Election: Making Sense of 95 Percent Turnout
92.95 percent. 93.30 percent. 95.70 percent. No, these figures are not Rotten Tomatoes ratings of Humphrey Bogart’s The Maltese Falcon....
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Oct 6, 20165 min read


Tyranny in Britain
“We’re out.” With this laconic declaration, the Daily Mail delivered Friday’s simple, momentous truth to a polarized Britain; the torrent...
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Jul 23, 20167 min read


Achieving Political Goals: Euro 2016 and European Unity
Europe has experienced great political turbulence over the past year. The terrorist attacks on Paris and Brussels, the controversy...
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Jul 19, 20165 min read


Union Jack of All Trades
Britain really wants to know: Should it stay or should it go? The concept of British exit from the EU, popularly dubbed “Brexit,” has...
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May 2, 20164 min read


The Armenian Genocide as a Precedent
On the eve of the Holocaust, Hitler addressed a gathering of Wehrmacht commanders at his home in Obersalzberg, just a week before the...
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Apr 30, 20166 min read


Get Smart, Europe: Intelligence Failure and the Terrorist Threat
In the wake of the March terrorist attacks on Brussels, which killed 32 civilians and injured more than 300 at the city’s airport and at...
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Apr 27, 20165 min read


Pressing to Compress
Earlier this year, the world watched in consternation as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s increasingly autocratic regime closed...
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Apr 25, 20165 min read


The Rosewood Fasces: Brussels, Bratislava, and the Vapidity of European Social-Democracy
In many ways, the political landscape in Eastern Europe is still getting its bearings after the fall of Warsaw-pact regimes in 1989-91....
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Apr 20, 20167 min read


Terrorism Beyond the Limelight
On March 13, a car bomb exploded in Turkey’s capital, Ankara, killing an estimated 32 people and injuring over 100 others. This attack...
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Apr 19, 20165 min read
The Irish Political Paralysis
Irish politics are in a state of paralysis — the recent general elections resulted in a hung Dáil (the lower house of the Irish...
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Mar 28, 20165 min read


PiS’d Off: Why Eastern Europe’s most successful democracy is backsliding
In a protest about the Eastern Bloc’s future, the public station Polskie Radio wasn’t just handing out tote bags. The station played the...
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Mar 17, 20167 min read


Italian Brain Drain
“I came. I saw. I left.” That’s the new motto of Italy’s youth. Over 150,000 Italians have relocated to London in the past eight years....
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Mar 16, 20166 min read
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