Progressives Are Winning Big in This Year’s Primaries Progressives Are Winning Big in This Year’s Primaries
John Nichols on moving the Democrats left, Yanis Varoufakis on Trump and Europe, and Arthur Goldhammer on Paris in May ’68.
May 24, 2018 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Can Yanis Varoufakis Save Europe? Can Yanis Varoufakis Save Europe?
At a moment when many on the right and left have abandoned the European project, Greece’s former finance minister has other plans for the continent.
May 3, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
The Far Right Is a Growing Threat in Greece The Far Right Is a Growing Threat in Greece
This is what happens when the ruling leftist party accepts austerity: polarization, fear, and “Trumpism on the Mediterranean.”
Feb 15, 2018 / Yiannis Baboulias
How Food Brought an Unlikely Group of Syrian Refugees Together How Food Brought an Unlikely Group of Syrian Refugees Together
Stuck in Greece, families found comfort in culinary rituals.
Oct 12, 2017 / Feature / Dalia Mortada
In Greece, the Refugee Crisis Worsens While the World’s Attention Turns Elsewhere In Greece, the Refugee Crisis Worsens While the World’s Attention Turns Elsewhere
The EU’s resettlement plan has failed—tens of thousands are now stranded in dangerous, unsanitary camps.
Sep 23, 2016 / Anna Lekas Miller
Seeing David Hammons Seeing David Hammons
Given that the artist is such a spectral presence, how can his multifarious oeuvre be summed up in a single retrospective survey?
Sep 21, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The EU Has Turned Greece Into a Prison for Refugees The EU Has Turned Greece Into a Prison for Refugees
The grief, frustration, and need that have washed up on these shores is overwhelming.
May 27, 2016 / Feature / Maria Margaronis
Desperate Syrian Refugees Begin a Hunger Strike in Greece Desperate Syrian Refugees Begin a Hunger Strike in Greece
“Tell the EU governments this deal is the biggest shame in the history of the whole EU.”
May 18, 2016 / Maria Margaronis
Greece Has New Independent Media—If You Want It Greece Has New Independent Media—If You Want It
Athens Live aims to provide journalism to a country with notoriously corrupt news outlets.
May 5, 2016 / Jessica Corbett
Yanis Varoufakis Is Fighting For a More Democratic Alternative to the EU Yanis Varoufakis Is Fighting For a More Democratic Alternative to the EU
The leftist former finance minister of Greece experienced the crushing power of eurozone austerity firsthand—and knows an alternative is vital.
May 2, 2016 / James Carden