London: The Nightmare is Over
D.D. Guttenplan & Maria Margaronis : Barack Obama
When the votes were finally counted, Europe's wish to usher George W. Bush into the dustbin of history made for widespread jubilation.
2008
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Jörg Haider's Legacy
Slavenka Drakulic : Austria
Austria's most notorious right-wing politician died as spectacularly as he had lived--and in a Europe stunned by financial crisis, leaves a dangerous legacy.
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Missing: The 'Right' Babies
Kathryn Joyce : Religious Fundamentalism
Christian-right activists look at falling birthrates among whites and rising Muslim immigration in Europe and warn of a looming "demographic winter."
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Rambling Man
Mark Mazower : Non-Fiction
A modern-day Rip Van Winkle challenges the view that Europeans are too wrapped up in their past to move on.
2007
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In Europe, Where's the Hate?
The main threat to democracy isn't "Islamofacism" but plain old fascism, with mostly white Europeans terrorizing minorities in the name of racial, cultural or religious superiority.
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German GWOT Misfire
The government is using antiterrorist laws to suppress political dissent.
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Waiting for Gordon
D.D. Guttenplan : Great Britain
Britain's incoming prime minister inherits a country transformed almost beyond recognition.
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The French Connection
Jordan Stancil : Foreign Affairs
A new Reaganomics is taking hold in Europe, with grave implications for progressive politics everywhere.
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Veiled Intolerance
Richard Wolin : Islam & Muslims
A batch of new books describe how European governments have dealt with Muslim immigrants and citizens since 9/11.
2006
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In Her Mind's Eye
Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism is a political classic trapped in the era in which it was written.
2005
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Europa, Europa
Tony Judt's Postwar, a massive summary of European public life since World War II, is a triumph of narrative that will allow readers familiar with the history to experience it again.
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Euroland vs. Dollarland?
Eurolabor is asking what's in the new European Monetary Union for workers.
2004
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Dutch Tolerance Tried
Maria Margaronis : Islam & Muslims
Politicians across Europe are exploiting people's fears of terrorism and social breakdown.
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Fears of a World Divided
Maria Margaronis : Great Britain
If most of Europe's people are depressed, some of their leaders are privately relieved.
2003
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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