Rachel Donadio
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Fred Lancelot / Reuters What the November 13 Attacks Taught Paris
For years, deadly terrorist strikes in France were widely treated as isolated incidents. That changed forever in 2015.
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Francois Mori / Reuters Trump’s Bromance With Macron Fizzles Spectacularly
A weekend of presidential drama in Paris culminated in the French president’s warning against an emerging global disorder.
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Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters Europeans Are Obsessed With the U.S. Midterms
“Right now we have almost-daily U.S. coverage on Trump and everything that’s connected to him.”
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Cathal McNaughton / Reuters France’s Jews Look to Pittsburgh ‘Across a Narrow Bridge’
“What’s been a reality for us has now become a reality for them,” said one worshipper at the Mouvement Juif Libéral de France in Paris.
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Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters Continuing the Work of a ‘One-Woman WikiLeaks’
A year after Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder in Malta, her family still wants answers—and it wants other reporters to complete her final stories.
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Remo Casilli / Reuters The EU Has Rejected Italy's Budget. That's Just What Rome Wanted.
The EU’s move comes amid growing economic problems in Italy, but the country’s ascendant populists will flaunt Brussels’s decision as a victory.
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Tony Gentile / Reuters Pope Francis Is Still Equivocating on the Sex-Abuse Crisis
He stands by those to whom he’s loyal but, when faced with new evidence, is also willing to change his mind.
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Erik Aavatsmark / Netflix Paul Greengrass, Auteur of Globalization and Its Discontents
In his new film 22 July, the director portrays the Norwegian killer Anders Breivik as a harbinger of the ‘alt-right.’
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Adam Hale American Weirdness: Observations From an Expat
The disorientation of coming home and buying toothpaste
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Stefano Rellandini / Reuters Italy Defied Starbucks—Until It Didn’t
The chain has opened its first outfit in Milan. But does “the country of coffee” really need it?
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Stefano Rellandini / Reuters The Power Play Driving the Latest Vatican Crisis
An explosive letter calling on the pope to resign may say more about its author than anything else.
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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.
