Rachel Donadio
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Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters Italy’s Voters Aren’t Anti-Immigration—But Their Government Is
The country’s electorate is torn between humanitarianism and nationalism, and it wound up with leaders on the nationalist side.
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Kayhan Ozer / Reuters How a Soccer Star Sparked a Ferocious Debate in Germany
Mesut Özil has dramatically quit the national team, declaring: “When we win, I am German. When we lose, I am an immigrant.”
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Elizabeth Shafiroff / Reuters The French Don’t Understand American Identity Politics
Trevor Noah and a French diplomat had a very public spat over race.
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Darren Staples / Reuters France’s World Cup Victory Is a Win for Emmanuel Macron
At stake was not only a clash of soccer teams, but also a clash of worldviews.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Donald Trump Meets the Press in Britain—and the Press Is Very Puzzled
The British media tries to figure out the American president
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Simon Dawson / Reuters Trump’s London Visit Is the Normalization of Abnormality
It’s less a triumphant celebration of the “special relationship” between two long-standing allies and more an exercise in damage control.
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Pool / Reuters A Funeral for a Vision of Europe
France celebrates the icon and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil, at a time when her ideals are under threat.
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Miriam Karout / AP Germany’s World Cup Loss, Europe’s Schadenfreude
The geopolitical metaphors practically write themselves.
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Antonio Masiello / Getty The Outrage Cycle, Italian Style
The country’s hard-line 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.
