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This is NRC's daily commentary. It contains opinions, interpretations and choices. They are written by a group of editors, selected by the editor-in-chief. In the comments, NRC shows where it stands for. Comments offer the reader a handle, an angle, they are 'first aid' for the news of the day.If the Senate adopts the dispersal...

Impressionism with a capital letter was a French affair. Around 1870, a group of Parisian painters, including Monet, Degas, Pissarro and Sisley, began working in the open air – a relatively new activity, made possible by the invention of the paint tube – and recording their impressions quickly, on the spot. The young painters focused on what...

Everything that lives dies. This may sound oppressive, but it is no different. And turn it around. There is really only one way not to die. That is: not living. It is not without reason that this quote from the Lebanese-American writer Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) is often heard at funerals: 'When you are sad,...

'Every day a new incidentIt's easy to sayWhat is abnormal has become normal for meParanoia, my brain can't handle it'In the song 'Olay' (Incident), Turkish rapper Ezhel compellingly expresses the mood of his generation. Over a slow, ominous trap beat, he raps about the frustration and powerlessness that many Turkish youth feel as they watch their country descend...

What to do with Viktor Orbán: reconcile or escalate? While Brussels is cautiously working on a compromise on financial support for Ukraine, the European Parliament (EP) wants to sharpen the tone towards the Hungarian Prime Minister. This Thursday, a large majority of MEPs are calling for the European Union to take steps to deprive Hungary of its...