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Lawfare Isn't Beaten -- In France or America Mar. 31, 2025
Elections are supposed to be decided at the ballot box, not in the courtroom — unless you're F... Read More
The French Center Holds -- In a World Coming Apart Apr. 26, 2022
"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold." So wrote William Butler Yeats in the wake of the Great... Read More
Will France Move Further Toward Authoritarianism This Week? Apr. 21, 2022
Next Sunday, French voters will decide on their next president. While most of the country and the re... Read More
Trump's Crucial Test at San Ysidro Nov. 27, 2018
Mass migration "lit the flame" of the right-wing populism that is burning up the Old Continent, she ... Read More
The New/Old Politics of Capital vs. Countryside Apr. 28, 2017
Capital vs. countryside — that's the new political divide, visible in multiple surprise electi... Read More
The Next President Apr. 26, 2017
Will Donald Trump be re-elected in 2020? Probably not, say people who bet. They give Trump only a 23... Read More
Is Macron the EU's Last Best Hope? Apr. 25, 2017
For the French establishment, Sunday's presidential election came close to a near-death experience. ... Read More
Is Democracy in a Death Spiral? Apr. 21, 2017
"You all start with the premise that democracy is some good. I don't think it's worth a damn. Church... Read More
Trump (and Putin) Still Pushing Fascist 'Nationalism' Apr. 21, 2017
Hold the exhalations of relief about the supposed moderation of Donald Trump and the apparent demoti... Read More
Is Liberal Democracy an Endangered Species? Jan. 06, 2017
"As we begin 2017, the most urgent threat to liberal democracy is not autocracy," writes William Gal... Read More
Europe's Future -- Merkel or Le Pen? Dec. 23, 2016
The terrorist who hijacked a truck in Berlin and ran over and killed 12 people, maiming and wounding... Read More
Populist-Nationalist Tide Rolls On Nov. 29, 2016
Now that the British have voted to secede from the European Union and America has chosen a president... Read More
Europe Trends Toward Radical Change Aug. 03, 2016
The refugee crisis and a growing fear of terrorism are pushing Europeans into the lap of populist po... Read More
America and France Turn Right Dec. 08, 2015
In Sunday's first-round of regional elections in France, the clear and stunning winner was the Natio... Read More
Disappointed French Voters Drift to the Right Mar. 27, 2014
French President Francois Hollande saw his Socialist Party battered and bruised in local elections t... Read More
Fears of French Civil War Nov. 28, 2013
France continues to struggle with its mounting immigrant population. Marine Le Pen, leader of the fa... Read More
