France

10:08 AM, May 8, 2012 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL

We've been skeptical of the arguments by some of our brethren on the right that Barack Obama is a quasi-socialist or a crypto-socialist ... or just a plain old socialist. But now the New York Times is weighing in, in favor of the proposition.

9:06 AM, May 8, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

Steve Hayes, with Charles Lane and Charles Krauthammer, last night on Fox News:

3:31 PM, May 7, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

President Obama called French president Nicolas Sarkozy to say thanks and good bye, the White House press secretary announced.

6:41 PM, May 6, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

USA Today reports:

French voters booted President Nicolas Sarkozy from power Sunday in one of several elections across Europe in which governments that cut a deal to slash budgets to solve a debt crisis were hammered by the electorate.

I was a Facebook martyr for the Sarkozy cause.

May 7, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 32 • By ANNE-ELISABETH MOUTET

Paris

France’s rightists have grown too big to ignore.

May 7, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 32 • By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

8:33 AM, Apr 23, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

The New York Times reports on the French elections:

12:00 AM, Apr 22, 2012 • By ANNE-ELISABETH MOUTET

Paris
He was never supposed to be president. For years, rather charmingly, François Hollande didn’t even seem to care, unlike, say, the single-minded Nicolas Sarkozy, who had thought of little else since his early 20s.

2:50 PM, Mar 23, 2012 • By ROGER KAPLAN

Alain Juppe, France’s foreign minister, forcefully condemned the coup d’état that overthrew Mali’s president, Amadou Toumani Toure, a few days ago, and called for elections as soon as possible in the context of the restoration of constitutional order. Elections, the first round of the presidential election, were scheduled for April 29. Toure was not a candidate, having served his constitutional two-term limit and being eager, by all accounts, to retire.

Cartoon of French candidates racing on bikes

Will France’s Nicolas Sarkozy be the next European leader to fall?

Mar 12, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 25 • By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

Jan 30, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 19 • By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

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12:30 PM, Dec 22, 2011 • By JOHN ROSENTHAL

Two employees of the Sofitel hotel in New York walk into what appears to be a storage room, exchange a few words, and then break into a “dance of joy” – as it is has been termed in the French media – ending with an emphatic shoulder bump.

Richelieu and the invention of modern France.

Nov 14, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 09 • By KENNETH WEINSTEIN

For the past three centuries and a half, Cardinal Richelieu has captivated students of politics.

3:01 PM, Nov 2, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Before the latest issue of the French humor magazine Charlie Hebdo could even hit newstands, its office was firebombed. Apparently some did not find the humorists' depiction of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to be very funny and decided to say so by throwing a Molotov cocktail through the office windows early this morning.

11:37 AM, Sep 13, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

TWS friend Tom Winkler has posted some wonderful photos from France's remembrance of 9/11 over the weekend on his blog: