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Emmanuel Macron Angela Merkel

Left-Wing Criticism of Macron Isn’t Grounded in Reality

The alleged neoliberal really has governed as a centrist.

Nick OttensNick OttensMay 19, 2020April 20, 2022
Paolo Gentiloni Mariano Rajoy Emmanuel Macron Angela Merkel Mark Rutte

Setting the EU Up to Fail

Integrationists raise unreasonable expectations and then blame the EU when it fails to meet them.

Nick OttensNick OttensApril 22, 2020November 11, 2021
Copenhagen Denmark

The American Dream Could Use Some European Inspiration

European countries went through — and solved — some of the problems America has.

Nick OttensNick OttensFebruary 25, 2020January 16, 2023
Donald Trump Giuseppe Conte

Trump’s Middle East Plan Is Not About Peace

What Trump’s critics in Israel get wrong.

Ariel ReichardAriel ReichardJanuary 30, 2020November 27, 2021
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Barack Obama David Cameron

From Zero Problems with Neighbors to Zero Friends

How Turkey’s foreign policy failed.

Nick OttensNick OttensJanuary 14, 2020November 27, 2021
Berlin Germany

Berlin Shows How Not to Do Housing Policy

Freezing rents is a stopgap measures that ignores why rents are rising in the first place.

Nick OttensNick OttensJanuary 12, 2020April 25, 2023
United States Capitol Washington

Republicans Are Destroying Institutions to Save Their Party

Undermining Americans’ trust in the courts and law enforcement is a recipe for disaster.

Nick OttensNick OttensDecember 14, 2019October 24, 2021
St Thomas Hospital London England

Britain’s Health Care Debate Is Broken

Labour treats every reform as a step toward privatization and the Conservatives never push back.

Nick OttensNick OttensDecember 4, 2019October 3, 2021
Elizabeth Warren

The Best Argument Against Medicare-for-All Is Not Cost

The question is not would it be cheaper, but would it be better?

Nick OttensNick OttensNovember 20, 2019November 24, 2021
Pablo Casado

Spanish Center-Right Makes the Same Mistake Again

They keep trying to outflank the far right and failing.

Nick OttensNick OttensNovember 9, 2019October 13, 2021
Joe Biden

Romney-to-Clinton Voters Prefer Biden

Democrats would be wise to take the preferences of center-right voters into account.

Nick OttensNick OttensNovember 6, 2019November 13, 2022
Argentinian Congress Buenos Aires

Macri’s Failure Returns Peronists to Power in Argentina

The conservative’s gradualist approach to reform convinced neither investors nor voters.

Avatar photoChristian FitzHughNovember 5, 2019November 28, 2021
Pedro Sánchez

Sánchez Needs to Show Statesmanship in Catalonia

Hands off didn’t work. Repression didn’t work. How about listening to the Catalans for a change?

Nick OttensNick OttensOctober 16, 2019November 18, 2021
George Bush Dick Cheney

How We Talk About Our Opponents Matters

Both parties in the United States talk about the other as the enemy.

Nick OttensNick OttensAugust 7, 2019November 29, 2021
de Young Museum San Francisco California

How to Lose Friends and Influence People

It wouldn’t hurt the woke left to be a little more pragmatic.

Nick OttensNick OttensJuly 22, 2019December 2, 2021

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