The forgotten history of Muslim socialism
A century of failed experiments before the rise of Mamdani and friends
Socialism
Victorious Left-Wing Coalition in France Pushes for ‘Immediate Recognition’ of Palestinian State
The leader of France’s main far-left party pledged on July 7 to grant “immediate recognition of the State of Palestine” following a powerful showing by a coalition of left-wing...
Flash Briefs
Retain American Power, Do Not Restrain It
The call for the United States to show “restraint” by withdrawing from foreign entanglements and keeping the focus at home is growing in foreign-policy circles – and not just in the Trump administration....
Socialist eras and errors
Accounting for the popularity of Bernie and AOC
Op-eds
Crying for Argentina
A promising nation that made unwise political and economic choices.
Op-eds
How the US Can Keep Venezuela from Becoming a Failed State
On Sunday, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro will face his country’s hungry, impoverished voters. The election will be neither free nor fair, so another win for the corrupt Socialist pa...
Op-eds
Who’s A Fascist? Not Donald Trump
No, Donald Trump isn’t a fascist. And the efforts of a considerable number of columnists, reporters, and even university professors to make him out to be a second Hitler or Mussolini testif...
Op-eds
France just formally welcomed the Iranian president — and his checkbook
Hassan Rouhani visited Paris on Thursday, part of the first European visit by an Iranian president in 16 years. The trip, which follows Rouhani’s visit to Rome earlier in the week, is aimed...
Op-eds
The Greek- Israel Tango: 2015 a Good Year
Two key events over the last month marked the complex tango between Greece and Israel. First, the step forward: Greece’s foreign minister Nikos Kotzias announced in a letter to Israel&rsquo...
Op-eds
Perfect Submission Possible
Michel Houellebecq is a sardonic and iconoclastic French novelist, winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, and subject of considerable controversy in Europe these days. He deserves to be controv...
Op-eds
Analysis: Are France and the EU Serious About Combating Jihadism?
France's Socialist President Francois Hollande declared on Friday that he will leave no stone unturned in his country’s response to Islamic State’s massacre of 130 people in Pari...
Op-eds
Europe Needs Straight Talk About Radical Islam
BERLIN – Europe’s timid approach to Islamic terrorism imploded last week with the horrific jihadi-animated murder of 17 men and women in Paris, including most of the cartoonists...
Op-eds
Will Western Leaders Learn from the Synagogue Attack?
JERUSALEM — The latest Palestinian terrorist attack...
Op-eds
Analysis: Amid Sweden Crisis, Are Europe’s Social Democratic Parties Shifting Against Israel
BERLIN - The diplomatic crisis between Israel and Sweden over the Scandinavian country’s recognition of “Palestine” as an independent state has brought a shift among European So...
Op-eds
What Happened in Geneva? What Does It Mean?
It’s not easy to make a deal with Iran (and even when you think you’ve made one, you might be wrong). The failure of the Geneva talks is just another in a long series of such fa...
Op-eds
Home Alone
With her third federal election triumph on Sunday, Sept. 22, German Chancellor Angela Merkel demonstrated that her preferred foreign policy direction is, well, inward -- or at least one of non-in...
Op-eds
The Great Collision
For most of those who were so hopeful when the Great Arab Revolt downed the dictator Hosni Mubarak two years ago, the travails of Egypt’s fledgling democracy have been depressing. Many in t...
Op-eds
The UN’s Anti-Semitic Alliance
The Turkish prime minister’s recent slander about Zionism occurred at a UN organization event.
Op-eds
Hiding Cuba’s Crimes Behind Gay Rights Lies
On December 7, 1990, Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas ended his life. Forced into exile because of his political dissidence, and dying slowly of AIDS, he could no longer withstand the phys...
Op-eds
Drachmail and the New Democrats
Can Germany's Angela Merkel hold fast against Greek brinksmanship?