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Antonio Masiello / Getty The Outrage Cycle, Italian Style
The country’s hardline interior minister keeps stoking uproar with his inflammatory rhetoric—and it only makes him more popular.
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Remo Casilli / Reuters It’s the Right Wing’s Italy Now
The new interior minister is calling for more deportations of migrants.
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Alexander Aksakov / Getty European Politicians Are Suddenly Quoting Dostoyevsky
The writer offered an expansive vision of Europe and “the Russian soul” that appeals to leaders seeking rapprochement.
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Stefano Rellandini / Reuters Spitting in Europe’s Face Won’t Help Italy
The collapse of a populist coalition may be good for stability in the short term, but in the long term it’s bad for democracy.
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Tony Gentile / Reuters Italy’s Populist Victory Is Both Tragedy and Farce
The advent of a Euroskeptic government in a founding member state of the European Union may be a point of no return.
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Bernadett Szabo / Reuters How Hungary Ran George Soros Out of Town
The fate of one civil-society group is a disturbing case study of budding authoritarians setting the rules in Europe.
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Jonas Ekstromer / TT News / Reuters #MeToo Hits the Nobel Prizes
There will be no prize for literature this year, while the Swedish Academy that chooses the winner reckons with a sex-abuse scandal.
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Christian Hartmann / Reuters Emmanuel Macron and the Ghosts of 1968
French workers took part in annual May Day protests while the president headed overseas. But the labor movement is not what it once was.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Macron Embraces Trump, Rejects Trumpism
In a speech to Congress, the French president elegantly rebuked his host’s entire worldview.
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Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters The Meaning of France's March Against Anti-Semitism
The murder of a Holocaust survivor is forcing the country to embrace a new, unfamiliar kind of religious and ethnic solidarity.
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Dario Pignatelli / Reuters The Missing Piece in Italian Politics: Women
“It’s still rare to find women who have authoritative roles in the media and political system. On the contrary, things have gone backwards.”
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Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters The Italian Implosion
Italy’s old guard is finished. But it’s not clear yet what the new guard is.
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Max Rossi / Reuters Two Ways to Read Italy's Election Results
The people have spoken. But what are they saying?
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Max Rossi / Reuters Italy's Messy Politics Are No Longer Local
The extremists get louder, the center struggles, and all of Europe will feel the effects.
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Remo Casilli / Reuters Why Is Silvio Berlusconi Back (Again)?
The former prime minister has been convicted of tax fraud and tarnished by scandal. He is nevertheless a kingmaker in Italy’s upcoming elections.
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Agencja Gazeta / Reuters The Dark Consequences of Poland's New Holocaust Law
The country is stifling open discussion of war crimes—and jeopardizing its own standing on the world stage.
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Matthew Mirabelli / AFP / Getty Who Murdered Malta's Most Famous Journalist?
The assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia raises questions about the tiny island nation that has become a back door to Europe.
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Bertrand Guay / AFP / Getty France's Fight Over Sexual Freedom
A letter from prominent French women embodied a backlash against #MeToo—and then sparked its own backlash.
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Bertrand Guay / AFP / Getty France, Where #MeToo Becomes #PasMoi
Some notable French women are decrying a “puritanical” wave of reckoning over sexual misconduct.
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Agencja Gazeta / Reuters Can Europe Enforce Its Founding Ideals?
The union is facing pressure from right and left as it tries to preserve its values.
