Slugger O’Toole: Spain’s unionist prime minister has just given us an object lesson in how not to hold a country together

Lebanese group says it destroyed three Israeli tanks as it fought off troops in Maroun al-Ras Read HERE

With the Paradise Papers in the headlines, we at BRAVE NEW EUROPE are trying to publish what we consider the best critical articles on the topic. Read here  

Politics is dominated by a “lumpen intelligentsia”: “earnest types who enthuse about ideas, simplify them and believe fervently that their crude and wholesale application will solve complex social problems.” Read here