Schengen Surveillance
By removing checks on borders between European countries while hardening those on the edges of Europe, the EU has redrawn borders along civilizational lines.
Spring 2025
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What’s Next for the New Popular Front?
The rapid fall of Michel Barnier’s government will test the unity of the French left.
The Living Fraternity of Militants
Jorge Semprún’s work captures a twentieth century of failed revolutions, lost utopias, and historical trauma of a scale that defies repression.
Europe Can’t “Trump-Proof” Itself
Following the U.S. election, European foreign policy experts are reviving ideas about strategic autonomy from 2016. They fail to understand how much has changed in the last eight years.
“It’s Our Duty to Talk About All Struggles”
An interview with Collectif Golem, a left-wing Jewish group in France fighting antisemitism and the far right.
The Geopolitics of Industrial Policy
A discussion featuring Yakov Feygin, Daniela Gabor, Ho-fung Hung, Thea Riofrancos, and Quinn Slobodian.
Emmanuel Macron’s Precarious Hold on France
Ahead of this month’s parliamentary elections, the French left has reemerged as the primary opposition to the president.
The Fractured Russian Opposition
A conversation with Ilya Budraitskis on how the invasion of Ukraine has transformed Russian society.
Will Mario Draghi’s Center Hold?
A closer look at the Italian prime minister’s career reveals how the tangled history of neo-Keynesian economic thought shaped his technocratic brand.
All Luck and No Virtue: Sweden’s Coronavirus Response
Sweden bet on both national character and herd immunity, hoping they would complement each other. Months later, the country has little testing and one of the highest rates of cases.
Europe: Will This Crisis Be Different?
As the 2008 financial crisis made clear, without major change at the European level, social democratic responses to the coronavirus crisis will be out of reach for many countries across the continent.
The Banal Transnationalism of the Far Right
When we exoticize the radical right, it becomes harder to comprehend their operations and the political and social context in which they are rooted.
The Trauma of the Troubles
In recent depictions of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, we find not the blast sites of the conflict but the domestic spaces that absorbed the fallout.
All Were Rebels: The Founding of the Network of East-West Women
Were we to postpone focusing on women’s interests in deference to what always gets named as more urgent—nationalist cries of crisis and cynically manipulated threat? Who gets to make history?
How Syriza Lost the Left
The Greek Coalition of the Radical Left is likely facing a major defeat in this Sunday’s election.
