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Painting with Light in Zierikzee: An Evening at the Sea Light Festival
Most weeks, I write about politics and history for The Planet—usually on Thursdays.
 • Alexander Verbeek
After the Fall: What Happens When American Democracy Returns
Why democratic societies always recover, and why the recovery is never clean
 • Alexander Verbeek
The Bills That Never Arrive: What European Healthcare Can Teach Anxious American Voters
Forty-five years of US spending surging past Europe while life expectancy lags behind tells one story: the American system serves profit, not people
 • Alexander Verbeek
Minneapolis’s Resistance Art Should Give Trump Nightmares
Artists in Minneapolis build on the resistance tradition Franco couldn't crush, communism couldn't silence, and that terrifies Trump
 • Alexander Verbeek
The Week Europe Stopped Living the American Lie
I watched something shift this week.
 • Alexander Verbeek
The Walk That Made Me Forget About ICE Raids and International Chaos
A few days ago, on an afternoon on the Dutch island, the weather pulled me outside.
 • Alexander Verbeek
Third-Hottest Year on Record Gets Buried Beneath Trump Headlines
Berkeley Earth and Copernicus confirm what scientists predicted: warming accelerates while political chaos dominates headlines
 • Alexander Verbeek
When the Country Stopped
A few days ago, I woke up with a strange light in the bedroom, as if the world had turned a whiter shade of pale.
 • Alexander Verbeek
From Bloody Sunday to Minneapolis: When States Kill in Public and the Politics of Denial
The Minneapolis shooting follows a script that Europeans know too well
 • Alexander Verbeek
The Award That Answers Trump
From Caracas to Kyiv: A European perspective on democracy's shifting front lines
 • Alexander Verbeek
Where Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Were Born
Why Almost No Americans Visit the Province That Shaped Roosevelt
 • Alexander Verbeek
A New Year Reflection
"Happy New Year" isn't a token message. It's a real wish for the society we create together when forces of good unite.
 • Alexander Verbeek
From Franco's Spain to Trump's America: When Journalists Kill Their Own Stories
Trump targets even the BBC over content Americans couldn't watch
 • Alexander Verbeek
Accidental Café Models
At 60, I accidentally became a model. Sort of.
 • Alexander Verbeek
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