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Jul 5, 2024 | 
ilfoglio.it | Thibault Muzergues
Il risultato del primo turno in Francia non ha solo segnato la morte del macronismo come movimento politico, ma ha anche avviato la Francia nel suo periodo post populista: dopo l'Italia, anche il paese d'oltralpe dice addio alla divisione tra populisti ed élite iniziata nel 2010 e riabbraccia i vecchi schieramenti Il primo turno delle elezioni legislative francesi ha dunque emesso il suo verdetto, e se non è vero che è definitivo – visto che ci sarà un secondo turno che si preannuncia incerto...
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
la-croix.com | Thibault Muzergues
Coup de tonnerre, coup de poker… les titres de la presse de ce lundi traduisaient bien le choc unanime de la presse devant le pari « très risqué » d’Emmanuel Macron, à savoir la dissolution de l’Assemblée nationale suite à la claque électorale infligée par les Français lors les Européennes.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Jeffrey Gedmin |Thibault Muzergues |Eguiar Lizundia
At long last, Europe is waking up to the menace of kleptocracy. The war on Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s mafia state and a series of high-profile corruption scandals on the continent have finally convinced European elites of the fundamental threat to democratic governance, national security, and economic prosperity posed by foreign kleptocratic actors.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Jeffrey Herf |Francis Fukuyama |Thibault Muzergues
If you live in Europe, chances are that the crisis in the Red Sea has already affected you. On account of the threat posed by Houthi pirates, the world’s largest shipping companies—including Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd—have stopped using the route leading through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, which carries around 30 percent of global container trade.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Jeffrey Herf |Francis Fukuyama |Thibault Muzergues |Martha Bayles
There wasn’t a lot of hardscape around the Malibu home where the renowned Harvard professor and adviser to presidents James Q. Wilson lived with his wife Roberta. A paved driveway curved down from the road. But the Wilsons, both native Californians, had planted the steep surrounding hillside with hardy, aromatic native species such as sagebrush, lupine, vervain, ceanothus, poppy, thistle, clover, and bush mallow, buzzing with bees and whirring with hummingbirds.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Jeffrey Herf |Francis Fukuyama |Thibault Muzergues |Jeffrey Gedmin
I’m rereading Arch Puddington’s excellent essay of two years ago in American Purpose on Bayard Rustin. Rustin was remarkable as influential civil rights leader, passionate advocate for nonviolence and integration, and key adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr. Monday is Martin Luther King Day and American Purpose will be off in recognition of it. Arch worked for Rustin as a researcher in the 1970s. Republican Richard Nixon, an exploiter of grievance and racial resentments, was president.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Jeffrey Herf |Francis Fukuyama |Thibault Muzergues |Steve Deal
A stand for freedom of belief can occur in the most unexpected places. Recently, I found myself engaged in the ritual of visiting my eighty-six year-old father at his retirement home. He lives modestly there; looking down upon us were wedding day pictures of my late mother and him from a bygone era, set off by the beige curtains of a cramped living room backdrop.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Jeffrey Herf |Francis Fukuyama |Thibault Muzergues |Michael Mandelbaum
As the war begun by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, approaches its second anniversary, the Ukrainians have reason to worry about their ability to continue resisting the Russian effort to conquer and occupy their country. Their thus-far successful resistance has depended on assistance from the West, especially military supplies from the United States.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Jeffrey Herf |Francis Fukuyama |Thibault Muzergues |Richard Aldous
On Thursday, January 18 at 10:00 a.m. ET, join Richard Aldous for a live recording of his latest Bookstack podcast. Richard will be interviewing Ray Arsenault, author of the forthcoming John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community. The first full-length biography of John Lewis, Arsenault explores the civil rights hero and congressman's dedicated efforts to an overarching objective: bringing to fruition the concept of the "beloved community," a society characterized by fairness and inclusivity.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Jeffrey Herf |Francis Fukuyama |Thibault Muzergues |Michael Mandelbaum
This coming November Americans will elect a president, and the formal process of doing so begins on January 14 with the Iowa Republican caucus. At this point, the identities of the two major-party candidates seem all but certain: barring unexpected events the election will pit the Democratic incumbent, Joe Biden, against the Republican former president Donald Trump.
