Author: James Kanter

Mehreen Khan of the FT on civilizational racism | Macron spurns the Western Balkans | Andorra versus Albania | Majlinda Bregu of the Regional Cooperation Council | Foreign fighters | The legacy of the Ottomans in Brussels

Beating the trolls with Andrew Stroehlein of Human Rights Watch | Breaking the outrage cycle | How to Clean Up the Internet with David Babbs | Ending toxic anonymity | Rebutting the cyber-libertarians

Novelist and commentator Ahdaf Soueif | Losing the Mezzaterra | Resigning from the British Museum | The Cold War roots of terror | EU-funded authoritarianism in Egypt | The persistence of racist thinking

André Wilkens on taking culture wars seriously | The case of Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska | Marta Keil on threats to Polish museums and theatres | Croatia's Oliver Frljić versus Poland's Piotr Gliński | Fiction

Anthony L. Gardner on the EU and Ukraine | "Stars With Stripes” | Brexit’s toll on Europe | Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage | Ursula von der Leyen’s geopolitical Europe | Internationalising the euro | Belgian pralines

Alberto Alemanno on lobbying the far right | Maris Hellrand on slacktivism | Heather Grabbe on red lines | Benedikt Herges of Siemens on the dangers for corporates | Michiel van Hulten on transparency

Rape, fertility, and magical thinking among Romanian priests | A Socialist leader denies gender equality | A medical chief mocks affordable abortion | Bianca’s story | No terminations before Christmas and Easter

Pressure on women intensifies in Croatia, Romania and Poland | European elections give reproductive bullies a boost | Plastic embryos at the European Parliament | Pro-choice and LGBT face a common enemy

Tony Blair | Taking on nationalist populists and winning | Europe still lacks “sense of itself" | Andrew Stroehlein of Human Rights Watch | The far right and extreme right in the new European Parliament | Milkshaking MEPs