With her high cheekbones and aubergine dye streaking her chestnut hair, Eden Golan looked every bit the Eurovision starlet as she rehearsed her country’s entry ahead of this week’s song contest.
Holding the hopes of a nation is burden enough for any 20-year-old, but since Eden won her ticket to Malmo – the Swedish host city of this year’s competition – she has endured a barrage of death threats. As Israel’s entrant, she has become a lightning rod for hate
My first job in media was as an assistant at The American Prospect, a small political magazine in Washington, D.C., that offered a promising foothold in journalism. I helped with the print order, mailed checks to writers—after receiving lots of e-mails asking, politely, Where is my money?—and ran the intern program. This last responsibility allowed me a small joy: every couple of weeks, a respected journalist would come into the office for a brown-bag lunch in our conference room,
When Hester Van Buren, a deputy mayor of Amsterdam, recently proposed a 1 percent increase to the city’s tourist accommodation tax — which is already among the highest in Europe — her City Council colleagues responded with a single criticism: They wanted the increase to be even bigger.
“We have a lot of costs for the city, of course — for well-being, for livability,” Ms. Van Buren said in a recent interview at Amsterdam’s City Hall. “We don’t want to
