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Alexander is a journalist at FRANCE 24 in Paris. He holds an MSc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics, an M.A. in International Public Policy from Sciences Po, and a B.A. in Political Science from Amherst College.

In the time between undergrad and graduate school, he lived and worked in southern Chad, where he became proficient in bucket shower and mango peeling.

He has written for, among others, The New Republic, The Daily Beast, Full Stop Magazine, and Lobelog.

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The Ugly, Illiberal, Anti-Semitic Heart of the Yellow Vest Movement

The Ugly, Illiberal, Anti-Semitic Heart of the Yellow Vest Movement

The protests have combined legitimate economic grievances with the worst of far-right politics. And the Frenc…

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'I felt like an impostor': a mixed-race American in Africa

'I felt like an impostor': a mixed-race American in Africa

The long read: 'Passing for white' was a complicated feeling at home in Ohio. In Chad, it was a whole differe…

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Escape From the Trump Cult

Escape From the Trump Cult

Reason rarely defeats emotion-or, as Catherine Fieschi, an expert on political extremism, told me, gut instin…

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Skin Worn Thin | Hazlitt

Skin Worn Thin | Hazlitt

Every time I crossed the courtyard, walked past the well in the corner and slipped out of the baby blue gate …

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What the preservation of a Roma identity entails

What the preservation of a Roma identity entails

Miroslav Brož, holding a can of Krušovice beer, greeted me and Eli Naegele, a Czech reporter, one April after…

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La bannière enflammée ou le testament de Tocqueville

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By Alexander Hurst Verified, Aurélie Garnier
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À l’âge de quatorze ans, j’ai brûlé le drapeau des États-Unis. C’était un petit drapeau, fait d’une matière entre le papier et le coton, collé à un bâton en bois comme ceux distribués lors des défilés du 4 juillet, notre fête nationale. Je ne me souviens pas où je l’avais acheté, mais je me souviens distinctement de ma façon de le brûler : seul, de retour du lycée, dans ma salle de bain.
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Stubborn, arrogant, a genius: France’s De Gaulle epic shows up the tepidity of our politics

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By Alexander Hurst Verified
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Simon Abkarian as Charles de Gaulle in La Bataille de Gaulle. Photograph: Malgosia Abramowska/Pathé Films – TF1 Films Productio How much of our political agency have we sacrificed on the altar of imagined constraints? That question has been troubling me since last week, when I stepped out of the glitteringly art deco Grand Rex cinema in Paris.
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France’s De Gaulle epic shows up the tepidity of our politics

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