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Photo illustration by Cristiana Couceiro. Sources: Benjamin Cremel … Why Is France So Afraid of God?
How the country came to view religion as a threat to national identity
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Lauren Tamaki Can Italy Defeat Its Most Powerful Crime Syndicate?
A prosecutor takes hundreds of mobsters to court.
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Alex Majoli / Magnum The Coronavirus Exposed the West’s Weakest Link
Italy rallied after being hit hard by the pandemic. But it is not out of the woods.
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Adam Maida France Is Officially Color-Blind. Reality Isn’t.
The country’s prestigious grandes écoles illustrate the gulf between its universal ideals and its day-to-day life.
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Adam Maida The Death of Cosmopolitanism
The coronavirus outbreak has emboldened defenders of the nation-state, in Europe and beyond.
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Shutterstock / Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The … The Coming Setback for Women in the Workplace
Countries across Europe are setting out schedules for reopening businesses, yet schools remain closed. How will that work?
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Andrea Mantovani / The New York Times The ‘Terrible Moral Choice’ of Reopening
European leaders have set out plans for restarting their societies. But the choice isn’t theirs; it belongs to individual citizens.
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Walter Sanders / The LIFE Picture Collection via … I Can’t Stop Thinking About Patient One
Italy shows us that controlling the pandemic will require reshaping family life in much of the world.
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Gao Jing Xinhua / eyevine / Redux A Letter From Wartime France
Streets that are normally busy, all of a sudden aren’t.
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Alessandro Grassani / The New York Times / … Italy Shut Down. Which Country Will Be Next?
Europe and the West are in denial about the compromises that will need to be made.
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Manuel Silvestri / Reuters Italy’s Coronavirus Response Is a Warning From the Future
The country placed severe travel restrictions on a swath of its north. Other democracies are watching closely.
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Philippe Wojazer / Reuters Sexts, Lies, and Kompromat?
The era in which French public figures were able to keep their private life private is quite possibly over.
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Guglielmo Mangiapane / Reuters An Italian Flash Mob Just Pushed Back Europe’s Populist Tide
A regional election offers lessons on combatting the rise of the far right, both across the Continent and in the United States.
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Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters A Tiny Island Exposes Europe’s Failures
The investigation into the murder of Malta’s most famous journalist has done more than plunge the country into crisis.
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Musée du Louvre Leonardo da Vinci’s Unexamined Life as a Painter
A new show marks the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death, and reveals some of his innermost thoughts.
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Adam Nurkiewicz / Stringer / Getty France’s Growing Pushback Against Roman Polanski
Despite the director’s history of sexual assault, the country has long supported his artistic freedom. But with the debut of his latest film, the tide may be changing.
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Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP via Getty ‘Welcome to Europe. Now Go Home.’
The overcrowded Moria refugee camp in Greece is where Europe’s ideals—solidarity, human rights, a haven for victims of war and violence—dissolve in a tangle of bureaucracy, indifference, and lack of political will.
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Luca Bruno / AP Italy Has an Intolerance Problem. Does It Still Have a Moderate Right?
The anti-Semitic attacks on the Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre have spurred a national debate about intolerance.
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Remo Casilli / Reuters Pope Francis, the Revolutionary, Takes On the Traditionalists
A three-week conference that prioritized the environment highlights a culture war in the Catholic Church.
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Bloomsbury Deborah Levy’s Disorienting, Captivating Fiction
The British novelist’s wry books veer from concrete realism to fractured blends of dream and memory.
