The French Right Goes Wrong
France’s Republican Party has chosen a new leader, Laurent Wauquiez, who did not hesitate to divide the party in order to conquer it. Now, having expelled his erstwhile comrades of the center-right, he...
View ArticleEurope’s Winter of Discontent
Domestic political turmoil in the European Union’s four largest economies spells trouble ahead.
View ArticleMacron’s Cheek: Daring to Tell Brexit Nationalists They Are Wrong
In a scathing open letter, the French president called on Europeans to unite against the rising tide of populist nationalism.
View ArticleFrance’s Yellow Vest Movement, One Year Later
The French protest movement sparked by a gas tax hike remains committed to fighting for economic justice.
View ArticleFrance Turns to Citizen-Legislators to Craft Climate Reforms
Can a small group of randomly selected people succeed where French politicians have failed?
View ArticleFrance’s ‘Deconfinement’ Plan
France has announced a carefully phased plan for easing the severe restrictions imposed in mid-March. The strategy is far more coherent, cautious, and realistic than the miraculous ‘reopening’...
View ArticleFrance’s Éric Zemmour Has Already Transformed America’s Far Right
The far-right pundit may not become the next president of France, but his ideas have influenced American nationalists for a decade.
View ArticleThe French Left’s Conundrum
Today on TAP: Macron’s been a disaster, but far worse disasters await should he lose.
View ArticleFrance’s ‘Jupiterian’ President Is Struck by a Bolt From the Blue
The left and the far right deny Emmanuel Macron a majority in the French National Assembly.
View ArticleThe Big Bet on Natural Gas Is Blowing Up in the World’s Face
It’s not clean, it’s not cheap, and it’s not a bridge fuel to anyplace good.
View ArticleThe Climate Threat to Centuries of Tradition
Today on TAP: It’s here, right now, even with the best policies—and we are far from pursuing those.
View ArticleA French Lesson on Inflation and Social Class
Today on TAP: In France, workers have shut down oil refineries, demanding wage hikes as a share of company windfall profits.
View ArticleEurope: Great Public Systems and Eroding Public Confidence
Today on TAP: The nations of the EU are fast depleting the legacy of a decent social compact.
View ArticleHospital Billing Is a Crime Against American Patients
A visit to a hospital in Europe is an eye-opener to the many ways monopolized U.S. hospitals pad their profits with unnecessary costs.
View ArticleOne More French Lesson—Le Drugstore
Today on TAP: In France, pharmacy chains are illegal. The result: local ownership, better service, and more price competition.
View ArticleEuropean Disunion
Fragmentation over energy and defense policy weakens the EU and fails to solve urgent problems.
View ArticleWho Knew? Revoking Long-Established Rights (This Time in France) Proves...
Today on TAP: Macron’s bid to raise retirement age yields huge backlash. Have our own Republicans even noticed?
View ArticleMacron the Autocrat
Today on TAP: Facing legislative defeat, France’s president raises the nation’s retirement age all by his lonesome.
View ArticleDemocracy Is in the Streets
In France, Israel, and just maybe, here, assaults on social rights by flawed governmental structures create the need for government-by-protest.
View ArticleDemocracy’s Bad Month
Today on TAP: The leaders of Israel, France, and India all moved to subvert democracy in the past couple of weeks.
View ArticleCasablanca for Real
The Netflix series ‘Transatlantic,’ on the 1940-1941 rescue of refugees from Marseille, is well worth watching, and contrasting with the shameful neglect of refugees in 2023.
View ArticleThe Path to Soft Fascism
Today on TAP: France could be the next country to elect a far-right president.
View ArticleEurope’s Decelerating Drift
Today on TAP: How serious is the continuing appeal of the far right?
View ArticleFrance: Back to Dreyfus? Vichy? No Exit From Its Fraught History?
Today on TAP: Following the EU elections, the neofascist right squares off against the neo–Popular Front left.
View ArticleThe French Left Arises From the Dead
Today on TAP: A surprising result of President Macron’s impulsive decision to call a snap election
View ArticleDemocrats and the Euroleft
How do the Dems stack up compared to U.K. Labour, the German Social Democrats, and the multiparty French left?
View ArticleThe French Disconnection
France’s voters have a bare chance of keeping the far right from power, if the center and left can manage to cooperate.
View ArticleDid Macron’s Gamble Pay Off?
Today on TAP: Calling a snap election did humiliate the far right. It remains to be seen whether the result produces a governable France.
View ArticleThe Early 90s Were Decadent and Depraved
John Ganz discusses his new book on how the period anticipated Trump.
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