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Arthur Goldhammer

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Arthur Goldhammer is a writer, translator, and Affiliate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard. He blogs at French Politics. Follow him on Twitter: @artgoldhammer.

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The left and the far right deny Emmanuel Macron a majority in the French National Assembly. Read more

America and the World

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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’ envisioned by U.S. authorities. Read more

Coronavirus

Domestic political turmoil in the European Union’s four largest economies spells trouble ahead. Read more

Money, Politics and Power

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In Germany, Angela Merkel announces her intention to step down as party leader. What are the implications for the European Union? Read more

America and the World

Three authors engage with the threats to a liberal society. Read more

Housing and Transportation

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It’s been half a century since young people around the world asserted that the times were “a-changin’.” Could another youth rebellion be in the making? Read more

America and the World

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Coalition talks between Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and Martin Schulz’s Social Democrats have begun. Will the German center hold, or will the talks end in collapse and an end of the Merkel era? Read more

America and the World

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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 has no alternative but to try to poach voters from the extremist Front National. Read more

Money, Politics and Power

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Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's new documentary is an immemorial tale of men at war, almost Homeric in its directness and simplicity. Read more

America and the World

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In this year’s federal election, Angela Merkel won a fourth term, but the German far-right achieved its strongest showing since World War II.   Read more

America and the World

Merkel and Macron need each other, as emblems of a still vital European center. But can Macron deliver more than symbols, and will Merkel take her foot off Europe’s oxygen hose? Read more

Money, Politics and Power

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The election of Emmanuel Macron as the next president of France could presage a dramatic party realignment. Read more

America and the World

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In the first round of the French presidential election, voters shocked everyone by doing exactly what the polls predicted they would do. Round two will make 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron the youngest French president and the first not to be a member of one of the two major parties. Read more

America and the World

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Given up for dead just a few weeks ago, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has come roaring back and threatens to turn the French presidential race upside down. Read more

America and the World

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Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow. The art of politics is to illuminate the landscape while casting the smallest possible shadow. The five of 11 French presidential candidates standing highest in the polls will face off tonight in a televised debate. Read more

America and the World

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François Fillon, who at the end of last year looked like a sure bet to become the next president of France, has been repudiated by many in his own party in the wake of a scandal involving the misuse of government funds for his own benefit. His campaign manager and chief spokesperson have resigned. Where does this leave the increasingly surreal French presidential race? Read more

America and the World

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A new book argues that data science may serve to reinforce inequality.  Read more

Energy and the Environment

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Raoul Peck’s masterful film about James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro, reminds us that we are not free to choose the condition of our existence—a useful reminder at a time when the president insists that fear of the alien is the defining characteristic of the American condition. Read more

Civil Rights in America

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The 2017 presidential race in France has already produced one major upset and may yet see several others before a new president is chosen in May. Whatever happens, the Fifth Republic is no longer the regime Charles de Gaulle conceived in his own image nearly 60 years ago. Nor is the Socialist Party the force that François Mitterrand conceived in his own image a decade and a half later. The end of an era has arrived. Read more

America and the World

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Can Donald Trump govern the United States as he presided over The Apprentice? The president-elect brings his genius for cruelty and delight in humiliating competitors to the White House. Read more

Money, Politics and Power

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Today on TAP: Facing legislative defeat, France’s president raises the nation’s retirement age all by his lonesome. Read more

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