Europe
By closing ports to migrants, Italy’s new government has joined a host of European nations that have toughened their stance on immigrants and splintered any hope of a pan-continent policy on welcoming [...]
Europe
There is hardly a better example of European Union ineptitude and drift than its handling of a new wave of migration storming Italy. So far this year, about 80,000 migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, [...]
Americas
(From The Washington Post) President Trump dropped a sectarian bombshell on Friday into his quick and confused order to curb refugee and immigration flows. He told the Christian Broadcasting Network that [...]
Americas
Rome—I have a new job. It’s to explain Donald Trump to Europeans. The only requirement is that I am American and can stroke my chin thoughtfully when someone asks me, as they now often do, [...]
Africa
Rome—The violent deaths of 12 migrants at sea off Libya today is a sad fable about the perfect storm of chaos on the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. The terrible twist was this: Some sort of [...]