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Mention the French Riviera and most people will conjure up images of le casino in Monte Carlo, le port in Saint Tropez, la Croisette in Cannes, (more…)

As any visitor to Cuba will tell you, slogans like “Hasta la victoria siempre” (towards victory always) or “Socialismo or muerte” (more…)

Dear President George W. Bush: As you open a new chapter in your life down in Crawford, Texas, after eight, sometimes turbulent (more…)

As Barack Obama is about to be inaugurated as America’s 44th President, a huge question mark hangs over the future of American society (more…)

Rush Limbaugh’s giddiness since the Republican election loss has proved infectious among French advocates of American conservatism, (more…)

I cringed when I heard Sarah Palin suggest that human activity might be to blame for so-called global warming in her ABC News interview (more…)

When we French need insights into American society, we can profitably peruse French historian Alexis de Tocqueville’s 1835 classic, (more…)

If President Sarkozy’s sharp drop in popularity is anything to go by, then the land of l’exception culturelle may well be getting aberrantly fed up with circuses. (more…)

(Lyon, France, Jan.14) However off-target many polls might be, as the New Hampshire primary demonstrated, Rudy Giuliani’s freefall (more…)

(Lyon, France, Jan. 12) Here’s a no-brainer for you as the GOP primaries whirl past Michigan into South Carolina and beyond. Who said: “Since there is a God of love, (more…)

(Lyon, France, Jan. 4) Hold everything. What’s all this I hear and read about Mike Huckabee’s brand of economic populism coming out on top in last night’s Iowa caucuses, as I raid the Internet (more…)

France’s dirigiste president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is just back from a state visit to China, where he unscrupulously traded (more…)

President Sarkozy’s speech before the U.S. Congress on Nov. 7 certainly sounded very heartening to friends of America in France. Reversing years of efforts by his predecessors (more…)

As the prattle in France about consumers’ perceived loss of purchasing power reveals, discredited Keynesian and Marxist economic fallacies die hard in old Europe. (more…)

When my friend, former US Rep. Bob Schaffer, asked me to lead the Pledge of Allegiance in the name of Franco-American friendship (more…)