Between a smack and a hard place — Poland votes, Orbán provokes, and Brussels shows its teeth

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A reckoning for Europe’s center left

The far right took some minor hits to its seemingly impenetrable armor this week, as people in Denmark, Italy, France and Slovenia headed to the polls. But those votes also told another, more existential story: the slow-motion collapse of the EU’s center left. To unpack what’s ai ...  Show more

The next refugee crisis

Officials are meeting in Brussels today to discuss the brutal civil war in Sudan and the looming refugee crisis that may result. U.N. officials warn that the conflict could lead to a mass displacement on a par with what happened with Syria in 2011. Zoya and Sarah unpack what the ...  Show more

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