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When Heads Roll in Europe
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When Heads Roll in Europe

A brutal knife attack in Belfast has exposed more than the savagery of one crime. It has laid bare a political and media culture t…

Cologne Cathedral may soon charge admission.
Comment|Opinion

Cologne Cathedral Puts a Price on Entry

Visiting the world-famous Cologne Cathedral will soon cost money. In Germany, where paying to enter a church feels alien, the deci…

Muslim marchers at London's LGBT Pride 2018.
Comment|Essay

An Islamic “Pride Guide” Shocks Liberals Into Dropping Diversity

The left-wing liberal alliance with political Islam in the West was always a harebrained scheme that harmed the countries in which…

Donald Trump during a discussion on a deal with Iran.
Comment|Opinion

Prisoner of Democracy: Trump’s Failing “Art of the Deal” in Iran

Donald Trump’s desperation for peace in Iran is now obvious to everyone: to his own voters, to his increasingly worried Israeli al…

Plinth of Christopher Columbus statue defaced with paint.
Comment|Opinion

The Statue Wars Are Back – This Time to Restore Them

Six years after the statue-toppling of 2020, America’s backlash is taking shape. Citizens’ groups are suing, Trump is lending supp…

Henry Nowak's pale hand.
Comment|Opinion

Henry Nowak’s Cold White Hand Is an Image That May Define Modern Britain

Sometimes photos have the power to change our understanding of the world – and in the UK, a haunting image of Henry Nowak's hand m…

Seal of confession at the center of debate in France.
Comment|Opinion

When the State Enters the Confessional

In the name of protecting children, French lawmakers considered forcing priests to break the seal of confession. The proposal was …

Germany protects whales and wolves but struggles with rats.
Comment|Opinion

The Wolf Walks Free, the Rat Thrives in Germany

Germany can rescue whales and protect wolves, but struggles to deal with rats. When compassion loses common sense, public health p…

Gad Saad discusses empathy.
Comment|Essay

Suicidal Empathy Is Real – But Its Opposite Has Its Own Risks

Gad Saad’s new book takes aim at modern progressivism’s defining characteristic. But the right should be wary of turning the argum…

Criticism of EU court's ruling on same-sex unions.
Comment|Opinion

When Activists Become Judges

What national voters and parliaments rejected, European judges have now imposed from above. Some of those judges had spent years p…

Frank-Walter Steinmeier at a charity meal.
Comment|Opinion

How German Taxpayer Money Reached Islamist Networks

A secret government audit reveals how German authorities transferred more than €15m in public funds to Islamic Relief Germany, a M…

France plans to tax bathrooms as living space.
Comment|Opinion

France Discovers the Taxable Loo

France wants to count toilets, showers and running water as extra taxable space in millions of homes. Officially, it is a cadastra…

Henry Nowak on CCTV footage.
Comment|Opinion

The Henry Nowak Case and Britain’s One-Way Policing Problem

When a police force's mistakes always appear to err in the same direction, questions begin to arise about whether they are really …

Quintus Cicero's career was overshadowed by political giants.
Comment|Opinion

Andy Burnham’s Rise and Europe’s Quintus Cicero Problem

Across Europe, voters look to their politicians and wonder where the great men of history have gone. The answer might lie in voter…

Germany's labor market has plenty of people on paper.
Comment|Opinion

Germany Has Workers, Just Not the Right Ones

For years, Germany has cultivated the story of a skills shortage. In some professions, the problem is real and severe. Yet three m…

PSG's triumph exposed the city's issues.
Comment|Opinion

PSG Won the Champions League, But Paris Has Fallen

PSG won the greatest title in the club’s history. Yet in Paris, it was not the boulevards that celebrated, but the banlieues, as m…

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.
Comment|Opinion

Russia and China: The Alliance That America Built

Beijing was briefly the center of world politics in May, hosting first Donald Trump and then Vladimir Putin within the space of a …

Ferrari\'s first fully electric car Luce.
Comment|Opinion

Why Ferrari's Wealthiest Customers Are Buying a Car They Do Not Want

For many Ferrari customers, the Luce is less an object of desire than a proof of devotion — one that separates the carmaker's most…

Europe's right faces fascism charges.
Comment|Essay

Fascism as a Political Smear

The left’s habit of branding populists as fascists does not expose a new totalitarian threat. It distorts history, deepens politic…

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