Yesterday's student protests across Algeria signal a commitment to continued political activism and suggest deeper roots than a disagreement...
Author: Melissa Byrnes
The latest in laïcité: the mayor of a Parisian suburb banned a vendor from the city's Christmas market because she was wearing a Muslim headscarf. Zekiye Yildirim was invited by.
The Bourbon heir to the French throne has thrown his support behind the gilets jaunes protests. On Facebook. I'm mostly.
It has been twenty months since Viktor Orban's Fidesz government launched their legislative attack on Central European University. Today, CEU officially announced that it will move all US-accredited programs to a new campus in Vienna. Over the course of 20 months, CEU has taken all...
A pair of Converse basketball shoes with Hebrew and Arabic phrases meaning "Peace be unto you" written on them sit with bouquets of flowers and cards.
Mike Duncan has a sobering piece in Made by History this week on lessons from the fall.
One of the latest tropes in discussions of the Kavanaugh confirmation has been to refer to France's infamous Dreyfus Affair. Kavanaugh supporters (Dreher, Schindler, Brooks) rely on a shallow understanding of events to draw a parallel between their man and the wrongly accused Alfred Dreyfus....
I have been unusually transfixed by this year's World Cup, where histories of European identity and empire are so clearly on display. [updated 15 July] We're headed into the last.
There’s plenty to unpack in Trump’s likening of ICE raids to “liberating towns” with military force. Certainly, it aligns with other moments of exclusion and militarization. Me, I’m reminded of.
MCALLEN, TX - JUNE 12: A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and...
Trump's Europe policy is a mess. First, there's this. And I thought our Ambassador's enthusiasm for empowering the German right-wing had set a new low in historical understanding... Once you.
By now, everyone and her sister has probably told you to watch Emma Gonzalez’s speech at today’s March for Our Lives. And soon, there will be infinite dissections of what.