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Jan 22, 2025 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Amber Massie-Blomfield |Michael Caines |Maria Margaronis |Harrison Stetler
A cyclist accusing a driver of getting too close. A quarrel with a man spreading his legs open across two seats of a bus. Kyoto begins with a montage of volatility ripped from the mobile screens of our fractious age. “I think we can all agree on one thing”, the protagonist and narrator Don Pearlman tells us at the top of the play.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Harrison Stetler
World / Is it too late for Europe to unwind its dependence on the United States? Ad Policy In Europe, coverage of the transatlantic alliance is in desperate search of anything that might pass as good news.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Harrison Stetler
Don’t put it past France’s Parti Socialiste (PS) to get aboard a sinking ship. Wednesday’s no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Michel Barnier over a social-security financing bill forced the collapse of a government that never had a parliamentary majority. But the vote was just as much a condemnation of the person who put him in charge: Emmanuel Macron, who handpicked Barnier in September to paper over his own camp’s defeat in the snap parliamentary elections this past summer.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Harrison Stetler
December 6, 2024 Macronism Has Died a Second Death French parliament votes to oust government. Ad Policy France’s President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Michel Barnier stand at attention during commemorations marking the 106th anniversary of the armistice ending World War I on November 11, 2024.(Photo by Ludovic Marin / Pool / AFP via Getty Images)Macronism has died its second death.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
msn.com | Harrison Stetler
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Harrison Stetler
Judges will soon deliberate on one of France’s most charged corruption cases in recent memory, when two months of court hearings over allegations against Marine Le Pen and her Rassemblement National end this Wednesday. The far-right party and its leader stand accused of embezzling millions of euros over a twelve-year period through false employment claims for aides to its members of the European Parliament (MEPs).
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Harrison Stetler
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Paul Griffiths |Harrison Stetler |Anna Aslanyan |Amber Massie-Blomfield
Fantasy, folly and frolic: those tutelary deities of Offenbach’s operettas did not quit the scene when he turned to the heavier material of The Tales of Hoffmann. They stuck around to oversee atmospheres of irony and unlikelihood, as well as the occasional romping tune. Productions tend to make physical room for all these in the background, in crazy sets and choral shenanigans.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Harrison Stetler
You learn a lot about a place based on what it allows to become a scandal. During last Wednesday’s Champions League match in Paris pitting Paris-Saint-Germain (PSG) against Atlético de Madrid, PSG ultras unfurled a massive bleacher-spanning banner condemning Israel’s ongoing war in Palestine and Lebanon. The banner depicts a militant with a face covered by a keffiyeh and a child viewed from the back draped in a Lebanese flag, both looking toward Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Harrison Stetler
Will Donald Trump’s reelection be the prod the European Union (EU) needs to start getting its act together? Can the twenty-seven-nation bloc articulate a common industrial policy that protects workers and average citizens from the perils of globalization — and the lure of the far right? There are reasons to be skeptical, not least given the political troubles in the EU ’s biggest member states.
