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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 New Republic — The protests have combined legitimate economic grievances with the worst of far-right politics. And the French left has been happy to go along.
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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 Guardian — The long read: 'Passing for white' was a complicated feeling at home in Ohio. In Chad, it was a whole different experience again
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Escape From the Trump Cult

Escape From the Trump Cult

The New Republic — Reason rarely defeats emotion-or, as Catherine Fieschi, an expert on political extremism, told me, gut instinct. If it did, right-wing populist movements from Brexit to Bolsonaro would be on the retreat, not in the advance. Those caught in the web of Trumpism do not see the deception that surrounds them.
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Skin Worn Thin | Hazlitt

Skin Worn Thin | Hazlitt

Hazlitt — Every time I crossed the courtyard, walked past the well in the corner and slipped out of the baby blue gate nestled into the high brick wall that surrounded my Chadian host-family's house, I instantly became nasara. It's a Ngambay word that means both "foreigner" and "white-person" at the same time.
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What the preservation of a Roma identity entails

What the preservation of a Roma identity entails

The Caravan — Miroslav Brož, holding a can of Krušovice beer, greeted me and Eli Naegele, a Czech reporter, one April afternoon last year. We had just arrived at Předlice, a neighbourhood 15 minutes by bus from the desolate centre of Ústí nad Labem, a visibly poor industrial town near the Czech-German border.
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French women flood Twitter to name and shame sexual harassers

French women flood Twitter to name and shame sexual harassers

France 24 — Friday the 13th boded ill for the patriarchy: that afternoon, Sandra Muller, a French journalist riding the post-Harvey Weinstein wave of pent-up frustration, launched a Twitter call for women to "#balancetonporc," or "squeal on your pig", by posting the names of men who had sexually harassed them at work and details of their behaviours.
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The 30-year-old white guy behind the Twitter account that's naming and shaming 'racists'

The 30-year-old white guy behind the Twitter account that's naming and shaming 'racists'

France 24 — As white nationalist, “alt-right” protesters shook the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, Logan Smith decided that calling out racists wasn’t enough – unless he could call them by their real names.
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Venezuela: 'No end to chaos without a negotiated solution'

Venezuela: 'No end to chaos without a negotiated solution'

France 24 — Rosmit Mantilla represents Venezuela's southern state of Thatchilla, on the Colombian border, in the National Assembly for Leopoldo Lopez's social democratic Voluntad Popular, or "Popular Will", party - but who knows if he will be able to leave Paris and go home, or if in a week's time, his job will even exist.
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France could close 'up to 17' nuclear reactors by 2025

France could close 'up to 17' nuclear reactors by 2025

France 24 — Hulot says the move aims to bring policy into line with a law on renewable energy that aims to reduce French reliance on nuclear power to 50 percent. France currently derives close to 75 percent of its electricity from nuclear power.
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Here's How the 'Bernie Bros' of France Could Elect Le Pen

Here's How the 'Bernie Bros' of France Could Elect Le Pen

The Daily Beast — PARIS-Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the former Trotskyite, far-left French presidential candidate, has often drawn comparisons with Bernie Sanders-including from himself. Like Sanders, he proved adept at tapping an authentic feeling of popular anger mixed with a youthful spirit of resistance and revolution.
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Seeking Europe's Future, One Village At A Time

Seeking Europe's Future, One Village At A Time

France 24 — What if the EU left Brussels without a pre-written script--what if it went to meet Europe's citizens where they are? In a time of Brexit, two French youths are spending seven months with an ear to the ground, asking--and listening--to what kind of future Europeans want for their continent.
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Can Russia Derail a French Front-Runner?

Can Russia Derail a French Front-Runner?

The Daily Beast — PARIS-Perhaps it's a badge of honor. Emmanuel Macron, the surprise front-runner in the race for the French presidency--the man now given the best chance to meet and defeat right-wing populist Marine Le Pen in the final round of elections this May--now alleges his campaign is a target of Russian-backed hacking and fake news.
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France's Terroir of Thought

France's Terroir of Thought

full-stop.net — Can centuries of philosophy guide France through the modern challenges of immigration and national purpose?
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A Unified Theory Of Trump: Why America's New Radical Right Is Here To Stay

A Unified Theory Of Trump: Why America's New Radical Right Is Here To Stay

Soapbox DC @Medium — Why all the rich donors and all the businessmen won’t put the Republican Party back together again.
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In Conversation with Steven Erlanger

In Conversation with Steven Erlanger

The Beaver — Steven Erlanger is the London Bureau Chief for the New York Times. He has reported in over 120 countries and is the recipient of numerous awards for journalistic excellence, including the Pulitzer prize for Explanatory Reporting on al Qaeda in 2002. I spoke with him about Super Tuesday, and the US presidential campaign viewed from abroad.
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Dean Diplomat

Dean Diplomat

The Beaver — An interview with Enrico Letta, former Prime Minister of Italy and current Dean of Sciences Po's Paris School of International Affairs, on academia and the future of European politics.
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Donald Trump and the Politics of Disgust

Donald Trump and the Politics of Disgust

New Republic — The Republican presidential front-runner is disgusted by a lot of things. And it's resonating with voters.
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Extremism Spreads to Chad

Extremism Spreads to Chad

Lobelog — In the aftermath of the Paris attacks the United States and Europe remain concentrated on fighting the Islamic State (ISIS or IS) in Syria and Iraq, they would do well not to overlook Western Africa's Sahel.
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Tossed, But Not Sunk | Beaver Online

Tossed, But Not Sunk | Beaver Online

The Beaver — “Today, Paris seemed cloaked in silence and stillness. The streets, the subway, the Seine, it all felt eerily empty,” a friend posted on Facebook. In a way, how could it not have been different? Unlike January, the viciousness of the terrorism we witnessed this weekend is in its indiscriminate randomness.
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Interview: Martin Wolf On The Aftermath Of The Financial Crisis | Beaver Online

Interview: Martin Wolf On The Aftermath Of The Financial Crisis | Beaver Online

The Beaver — Martin Wolf is the Chief Economics Commenter for the Financial Times, where he has written in varying capacities since 1987, and where he wields far-reaching influence through his columns. I sat down to chat with him briefly about the Eurozone and financing the fight against climate change.
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American Absurdity: Gun Culture In The World's Superpower | Beaver Online

American Absurdity: Gun Culture In The World's Superpower | Beaver Online

The Beaver — “From our cold, dead hands!” the gun lobby cries. But how many actual cold, dead hands, feet, eyes, and bodies have to litter America’s streets before we are willing to truly confront our obscene and irrational national obsession with guns?
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Opinion | Can François Hollande Finally Be The Leader Europe Needs? | The Paris Globalist

Opinion | Can François Hollande Finally Be The Leader Europe Needs? | The Paris Globalist

Paris Globalist — Embattled French President Francois Hollande could grasp the Euro crisis to be the leader he should have been from day one.
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Helmets, Corruption, and Boko Haram

Helmets, Corruption, and Boko Haram

Paris Globalist — In a nation racked by corruption, a history of cyclical violence poses a unique threat to stability in the Sahel.
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