The power of a milkshake and the craziest elections in the world, in England of course
Nigel Farage has resigned as a UK Member of Parliament following allegations he had accepted undeclared political donations. This triggered a by-election for his parliamentary seat. As a limelight-loving showman facing criminal investigation, Farage said he would resign but then contest the election, “let the people decide,” he said. This is what he called a […]
The Black Sea Is shaping our Alliance
On its watery surface — where it’s very hard to see your reflection because the water is so dark — across its roughly 500,000 square kilometers, in its indecision between being a sea and a lake, the Black Sea is writing the story of the future of an alliance as heavily armed and as delicate […]
How Europe came together on the football field
Europe, the world, a ball that at every latitude, and in every era, has the flavor of a madeleine dipped in tea. “Because every new World Cup, like Proust’s little cake, reminds us of past ones and the people with whom we watched them.” “World Cup Fever,” the new book by Simon Kuper—a journalist and […]