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Third-Hottest Year on Record Gets Buried Beneath Trump Headlines
Berkeley Earth and Copernicus confirm what scientists predicted: warming accelerates while political chaos dominates headlines
 • Alexander Verbeek
When the Country Stopped
A few days ago, I woke up with a strange light in the bedroom, as if the world had turned a whiter shade of pale.
 • Alexander Verbeek
From Bloody Sunday to Minneapolis: When States Kill in Public and the Politics of Denial
The Minneapolis shooting follows a script that Europeans know too well
 • Alexander Verbeek
The Award That Answers Trump
From Caracas to Kyiv: A European perspective on democracy's shifting front lines
 • Alexander Verbeek
Where Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Were Born
Why Almost No Americans Visit the Province That Shaped Roosevelt
 • Alexander Verbeek
A New Year Reflection
"Happy New Year" isn't a token message. It's a real wish for the society we create together when forces of good unite.
 • Alexander Verbeek
From Franco's Spain to Trump's America: When Journalists Kill Their Own Stories
Trump targets even the BBC over content Americans couldn't watch
 • Alexander Verbeek
Accidental Café Models
At 60, I accidentally became a model. Sort of.
 • Alexander Verbeek
Between the Difficult and the Impossible: Machado's Nobel Prize and Democratic Resistance
Witnessing the ceremony where an opposition leader's daughter spoke her mother's words
 • Alexander Verbeek
How Hemingway Led Me to Pamplona, Pilgrims Led Me to the Camino, and the Camino Led Me to Gehry’s Masterpiece in Bilbao
Frank Gehry’s death brings an unexpected memory
 • Alexander Verbeek
From Napoleon's Self-Coronation to Trump's Ballroom, History Repeats Itself
What happens when leaders confuse personal grandeur with national achievement
 • Alexander Verbeek
How Trump’s “Excellence” Mandate for Art Echoes History’s Darkest Regimes
A European’s warning about government-controlled culture
 • Alexander Verbeek
How Ian Fleming and a Group of Norwegian Commandos Started London’s Favorite Christmas Tradition
In 1942, a Norwegian commando named Mons Urangsvåg felled two Norway spruce trees on Hisøy island during a resistance raid.
 • Alexander Verbeek
On RFK's 100th Birthday, the Kennedy Name's Tragic Arc Mirrors American Decline
A European perspective on the day America should mourn the path it never took
 • Alexander Verbeek
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