PRINCETON: The protest movements that have flared up across the West, from Chile to Germany, have remained curiously undefined and under-analyzed. Some speak of them as the greatest global mobilization since 1968 — when enragés in very different (...)
PRINCETON: Can citizenship really be tested? An increasing number of countries — especially, but not only, in Europe — seem to think so.
Over the last decade, tests and exams for immigrants have proliferated — but so have controversies about what (...)
BUDAPEST: It's a well-worn contrast: the United States is religious, Europe is secular. Yet, in some respects, this clichéd opposition has actually been reversed recently: religion played virtually no role during the last American presidential (...)
BUDAPEST: This summer, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) narrowly escaped being banned by the country's constitutional court. State prosecutors alleged that the party was trying to "Islamicize the country and ultimately introduce (...)