Europe in Disarray
NEW YORK — It was not all that long ago – just a few years, as hard as that it is to believe – that Europe appeared to be the part of the world most closely resembling the end-of-history…
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China’s South China Sea Grab
MANILA — It has been just five years since China initiated its major land reclamation in the South China Sea, and the country has already shifted the territorial status quo in its favor – without facing any international pushback.
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The revolution Europe needs
STRASBOURG — The spontaneous street protests in Paris over the past month come almost exactly 50 years after the mass revolt of May 1968.
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Populism Is Rooted in Politics, not Economics
LONDON — Nearly 330 million Americans are governed by Donald Trump. Brazil, with 210 million people, has a newly-elected populist government.
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Bientôt une armée européenne grâce à Trump ?
MUNICH — Le comportement de Donald Trump en Europe est inadmissible. Non seulement il met en doute l’engagement américain de défense mutuelle dans le cadre de l’Alliance atlantique…
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Is Fake News Here to Stay?
CAMBRIDGE — The term “fake news” has become an epithet that US President Donald Trump attaches to any unfavorable story
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The world George H.W. Bush made
CAMBRIDGE — I have worked for four US presidents, Democrats and Republicans alike, and perhaps the most important thing I have learned along the way is that little of what we call history is inevitable.
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Will the Yellow Vests reject the Brown Shirts?
PARIS — From the moment the French government canceled its planned fuel tax hike in the face of massive protests, it was obvious that the move…
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China’s Boldest Experiment
BEIJING — Forty years ago this month, China’s leaders set the country on a path of reform that has produced the most dramatic economic transformation in history.
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Les longs adieux d’Angela Merkel
BERLIN — L’Allemagne va se trouver bientôt à la croisée des chemins, car Angela Merkel a annoncé qu’elle allait abandonner la direction de son parti, l’Union chrétienne démocrate (CDU)…
Read MoreDid the world turn upside down? (more particularly, that part of it known as the “western world”…)
“The World turned upside down” was the popular tune whimsically played by the bands of British regiments marching to surrender to a victorious General George Washington, at Yorktown in 1781.
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