Will the EU Survive the Coronavirus?

Posted by on Apr 15, 2020 in Europe, Featured | 0 comments The most insidious tactic of COVID-19 is to get a person’s body to attack itself. In the worst cases, the body’s autoimmune system essentially goes haywire as it tries to fight off infection. This “cytokine storm” can lead to serious inflammation in the lungs and ultimately to major organ failure. COVID-19 seems to have had a similar effect on the international system. Instead of...
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Goodbye to All That: The UK after Brexit

Posted by on Mar 17, 2020 in Articles, Europe, Featured | 0 comments If I were the European Union, I’d be wiping my hands, sighing in relief, and slamming the door after the United Kingdom’s long-delayed departure. Britain had been a noisy, pushy houseguest for 47 years, and it was only growing ruder. It spent the last three years hanging out in the foyer, braying and temporizing. Even as it steps out the door it’s trying to negotiate the most generous...
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Will 2020 Be Another Victory Year for Trump and Brexit?

Posted by on Mar 17, 2020 in Articles, Europe, Featured | 0 comments with Valerio Alfonso Bruno  In early 2017, Europe’s far-right parliamentary bloc met in Koblenz, Germany, to plot its political future. The meeting of the bloc’s leaders — which included Marine le Pen from France, Matteo Salvini from Italy and Geert Wilders from the Netherlands — took place shortly after the inauguration of US President Donald Trump. The group was optimistic about its...
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Trump, Brexit: Where’s the Backlash?

Posted by on Dec 30, 2019 in Articles, Europe, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments I dutifully got a shot this winter to inoculate myself against four different flu viruses. By exposing myself to weakened strains of these diseases, and preemptively suffering some mild flu symptoms, I can ward off the more serious consequences of a full-on infection and do my part to help stop the further spread of these pathogens. Both the United States and United Kingdom came down with chills...
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The Far Right’s War on Culture

Posted by on Oct 24, 2019 in Articles, Europe, Featured, Islamophobia | 0 comments The far right is on a roll. Just a few years ago, liberals and conservatives would have considered its recent political victories a nightmare scenario. Right-wing extremists have won elections in the United States, Brazil, Hungary, India, and Poland. They pushed through the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom. In the most recent European Parliament elections, far-right parties captured the...
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Burning Down the House

Posted by on Sep 26, 2019 in Articles, Europe, Featured | 0 comments Doesn’t idiocy ever take a vacation? As August wound down, the populist troika of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, and Jair Bolsonaro proved once again that the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil would be better off with no leaders rather than the dubious characters that currently pretend to govern these countries. In all three cases, these leaders escalated their nationally destructive...
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