Return to Afghanistan with a group of journalists, escorted by the French defense minister, Hervé Morin. A limited view: We only see valleys in Surobi and Kapisa. But an invaluable glimpse, nevertheless, because it counters what is heard almost ...
Massive cheating or not? A new kind of coup d'etat or not? How do we interpret this strange election whose results were announced by the press affiliated with the secret services and militia--even before the polls were closed? Considering the absence ...
Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. French billionaire François Pinault unveiled his contemporary-art museum Punta della Dogana at the Venice Biennale—including works by Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, ...
There are absolutely no limits to bad faith in politics. The grotesquely laughable debate about France's place in NATO is just the latest example. First, it is not correct to speak, as people are doing everywhere, of France's "return" to the alliance. ...
The New York Times Syndicate by Bernard-Henri Levy On the dangers of forgetting. Post Date January 13, 2009 I write this in remembrance of the renowned Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, murdered two years ago, on Jan. 19, 2007, for his comments ...
Not being a military expert, I will abstain from judging whether the Israeli bombardments of Gaza could be better directed, less intense. Not being able for decades to distinguish between the good dead and the evil dead or, like Camus used to say, ...
I write this in remembrance of the renowned Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, murdered two years ago, on Jan. 19, 2007, for his comments on the slaughter of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman forces during WWI ... in horror that the police ...
The world is decidedly poorly made, Asif Ali Zardari, widower of Benazir Bhutto and president of Pakistan, must be saying to himself. The French expression le monde est décidément mal fait sums things up quite nicely. For, it was at the very moment ...
It is clear that Barack Obama is neither an angel nor a man sent from heaven. Nor is he the honorary European floating through the fantasies of French leftists--that must be cleared up if we want to avoid some nasty morning-after wake-up calls. The ...
We are living in an extraordinary time. The world has been badly shaken. In the space of a few days a system that we thought was as secure and assured as the air we breathe lost all its landmarks, its clarity, and was seemingly swallowed up by a ...
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