Portugal’s Record Heat Piles On Housing Anger
Portugal’s poorest households face record heat and the EU’s fastest-rising house prices, and they are starting to march....
Lebanon Abolishes Execution, America Plans to Broadcast One
Lebanon abolished the death penalty while America plans to broadcast an execution, and the numbers show both trends growing....
Strasbourg Naked Golden Trump Trolls the Monument Tradition
A naked golden Trump in Strasbourg shows how statues, once made to flatter rulers, now serve to roast them....
Rubio Cherry-Picks Ancient Greece to Sell Modern Nationalism
Rubio urged the West to copy ancient Greek loyalty, yet ancient Athens thrived on argument, dissent and noisy assemblies....
Sánchez Rents His Fate to Housing Anger
Sánchez is betting housing anger can save his government, but voters may blame him for the crisis....
France: The Budget Strain Behind Raging School Protests
France's school protests began with overcrowded classes and missing teachers, but street violence and a budget fight now threaten to bury the grievances behind them....
Saudi Arabia Pays Cultural Businesses to Adopt AI
Riyadh's grants for AI in museums, fashion and film show a strategy aimed at spreading the technology beyond data centres and into everyday business....
Burnham Puts EU Membership Back on Britain’s Political Table
Burnham's openness to rejoining the EU shifts what British politics can say aloud, yet solid growth and a binding manifesto limit how far that shift can go....
Pope Leo Brings Catholic Doctrine into France’s Culture Wars
Pope Leo defends Catholic positions that French law has rejected, yet his sharper claim is that deep disagreement can survive without ending conversation....
Britain Gave Citizenship to a Former Hamas Bodyguard
A country's asylum system can follow every rule correctly and still let someone with an alarming past walk straight through it....
