Joseph A. Harriss
France and the U.S. are both undergoing social democratic onslaughts. That only intensified after last year’s elections. The difference, mes…
FRANCE’S LATEST BOUT OF JIHAD JITTERS came in September when two small homemade bombs were thrown into a crowded Jewish…
AS A CORRESPONDENT in Paris in the 1960s, I quickly learned that the surefire way to get the attention of…
FRANÇOIS HOLLANDE, new president of France and co-prince of Andorra, has had many grave matters on his mind since taking…
WHEN I DISEMBARKED from an Air Algerie flight at Algiers’ Dar el Beida airport long ago as a young newsmagazine…
The good news is that France’s new Socialist government is back from vacation. President François Hollande, known locally as Monsieur…
The backstory: Nicolas Sarkozy, the diminutive, energetic son of a Hungarian immigrant to France, works hard, climbs the greasy pole…
THE OMENS WERE INAUSPICIOUS. François Hollande celebrated his first day in office, May 15, by riding up the Champs Elysées…
From the first intelligence surveillance to the final shootout, France’s clumsy handling of its spate of Islamic terrorism in March…
Nothing in his presidency became it like the leaving it. “I take full responsibility for this defeat,” Nicolas Sarkozy declared…
