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SYRIZA is looking more and more like a sinking ship every day. A ship without a rudder, drifting who knows where as the crew fight among themselves and with the passengers. Unfortunately, this is the second largest party in the Greek Parliament we’re talking about. The official Opposition. Till now, the spectacle has had something […]

On the evening of the German election, observers unanimously agreed on one point: the outcome of the vote in the two eastern German states of Saxony and Thuringia represents a historic turning point. For the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, an extremist party has won a state election. Unlike […]

For the vast majority of Greek society, the memory of the bankruptcy decade has crystallized into a refutation of the "anti-memorandum” movement.

After one electoral year (May 2023-June 2024) and four elections, all of which it won, the government clearly needs a restart. A reboot. Which is fair enough. Because, for governments, the clock doesn’t start ticking from the last election, but from the first. And the Mitsotakis premiership is already in its sixth year. What’s more, […]

How and why the name of the top Fatah leader sentenced to life imprisonment has emerged as a way out for the Palestinian Authority, and what Israel is afraid of.

Latest violence occurs in western German town of Solingen, where a Syrian refugee with links to ISIS brutally killed 3 attendees at a public festival

A few weeks after Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race, Kamala Harris’s candidacy appears to have been a game changer for the US presidential election. And while the impact has been momentous, it clearly hasn’t been surprising. It was obvious to everyone that the outgoing President had reached his physical limits. Sadly, time halts for […]

The dawn of the digital era spells the near-extinction of legacy print media

Narendra Modi’s trip to Ukraine, after a two-day visit to Poland, will be the first by an Indian prime minister since diplomatic relations between the two countries were established over 30 years ago. It comes at a crucial juncture of the war, with Russian troops making advances in Donbas and Ukrainian forces venturing a surprise […]

August is a no-news month. We’ve heard it over and over. We’ve taken it on board. Besides, most journalists are on holiday. Although the newspapers and TV channels keep on publishing and broadcasting. Even if there’s no news, even with fewer journalists on the job. What August does have, though, is fires. Every year—regular as […]

With war in Ukraine and the Middle East, race riots in the UK, the threat of terrorism hanging over France and Belgium, unrest in Germany, and the specter of Jihad and Putin hovering over Europe, any talk of “national security” is either made in jest or hopelessly naive. Not simply because security is the second […]

Kamala Harris has the wind at her back. Her strengths became clearer in the past two weeks.

Hezbollah and Iran may feel constrained to limit their responses to the Jewish state’s strikes.

Yet again, the Middle East is on the verge of a major conflagration. The smell of gunpowder is in the air once more. Every new wave of bloodshed is a response to the one before it and the seed for the one that follows. I don’t know many people who will be mourning the death […]

"above all else, democracy is a culture"

My first visit to a second-hand clothing and accessories store (Greeks call them “used clothes” but that just sounds wrong… or is it just me?) was when Evocative Thread Treasures first opened its doors behind a metro station downtown. I was already following them on Instagram when I saw the most incredible yellow coat I […]