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Articles of the author John Lloyd
Merkel is wrong about Trump and Brexit
The chancellor of Germany no longer trusts the United States or the United Kingdom. In a May 28 campaign speech in Bavaria, Angela Merkel signaled distance from the two "Anglo Saxon" states, telling her audience "we Europeans must really take our (...)

04 - 06 - 2017
Political corruption in France is common. Four reasons that could change.
Political corruption in France is common, and usually - if the politician is at or near the top of the political game - unpunished by law. Yet the 2017 presidential election may mark something of a revolt against a semi-aristocratic disdain for the (...)

10 - 03 - 2017
Does Europe fear Muslims more than US?
A POLL on European attitudes toward immigration, Islam and terrorism, partly disclosed this week, found that a majority of Europeans don't want any more Muslim immigration. That is, they appear willing to support the ban which US President Donald (...)

13 - 02 - 2017
How Europe's left lost the working class
IF parties of the left cannot appeal to the working class, what's their use? The 21st century may be the one in which the umbilical link between the main left parties and organized labor is broken in favor of a politics of identity, and a grasping (...)

12 - 12 - 2016
Italy's referendum is Europe's next test in its fight for survival
The European political landscape best resembles croquet, the game popularized by the British in the 19th century. Its rules seem simple enough: players compete by knocking balls through hoops on a lawn. But like so much else, it's more complicated (...)

04 - 12 - 2016
For Trump, it's time to put statesmanship over showmanship
People live by stories. In our age, these stories are both fashioned by them through social media and for them by the mainstream media. Facebook and Twitter provide them with galaxies of real and virtual characters; other outlets deliver emotional (...)

27 - 11 - 2016
It's not only Britain trying to re-divide Europe
Poland has long been a victim of the greater powers around it. The nation regained nationhood after World War One, only to lose it again to the Nazi and Soviet invasions at the start of World War Two. When the Red Army liberated the country at the (...)

08 - 10 - 2016
Putin's Syria playbook? To recapture Soviet glory.
The destruction of Aleppo, especially the city's eastern neighborhoods that are tenuously held by anti-regime rebels, is largely pushed out of the nightly news by the fierce fighting around the presidential race in the United States. A few doughty (...)

02 - 10 - 2016
Political decency is taking a back seat
Liberal democratic rule is under its greatest pressure since the end of the Cold War. Let us consider the Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump, who joyfully makes a bonfire of the decencies in order to ride high in the media. (...)

06 - 06 - 2016
Russia can only use the United States as an excuse for so long
Sergei Guriev, Russia's most prominent free market economist, left Moscow in 2013 for Paris, in fear of his liberty. He had publicly supported dissidents, criticized the administration's policies, was an active and committed liberal, in politics as (...)

02 - 01 - 2016
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