The real problem facing us: if we are not allowing members to vote for their leader, we have to concede that there must be a different reason for those members to feel valued. Yet, there is no easy fix here.

The ‘basic inheritance’ is supposed to equalize chances for success in education and facilitate employment, but the reality is more complicated. 

In Paris, despite Anne Hidalgo’s efforts, there are still traditions that resist, and on every street corner you can acquire, for the modest sum of one euro and a few cents, a piece of happiness and eternity.

The stakes are thermonuclear. Military ‘experts’ and strategists are becoming far too comfortable with tweets, podcasts, and TV studio soundbites about tactical nuclear bomb yield, fallout, and downwind projections.

Ruud Koopmans, a Dutch sociologist, professor at Humboldt University in Berlin, and researcher on migration, social integration, and transnationalization said many of the rioters “grew up in a culture of hatred of the West.”

Soumahoro’s election had become a symbol of integration and meritocracy—a strong message to put on display at the time of Meloni’s victory. Today, his position is shaken by a scandal involving his wife and his mother-in-law.

The violent protests we saw last weekend could mark a significant shift in the mood of what had previously been considered a largely compliant citizenry.

Erdogan has positioned Turkey as a neutral actor player in the Russo-Ukraine war—as pro-Ukrainian without being expressly anti-Russian. In doing so, Turkey has also placed itself as a potential peace broker in the conflict.

Les Républicains are caught in a dangerous trap, between Macronism and the Rassemblement National, which has established itself as the leading parliamentary group on the Right.

UN chief Antonio Guterres expressed his deep commitment to remove the “remaining obstacles to the unimpeded exports of Russian food and fertilizers,” as these remain “essential” to avoid a food crisis next year.

Homophobic coward or anti-Muslim islamophobe? For players of the Football World Cup in Qatar, moral grandstanding just got complicated.

Calling the attack “cowardly,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vowed that “the culprits will be unmasked” and “punished as they deserve.”