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Historian Marion Fontaine on 'Block Everything': 'It's difficult to find precedents in the long history of social movements'

Marion Fontaine, historian of social movements at the Sciences Po higher learning institute, describes the September 10 movement as a disorganized initiative that the myth of the general strike does not help clarify.

Published on September 6, 2025, at 12:30 pm (Paris), updated yesterday at 12:41 pm Alain Beuve-Méry Pascal Riché

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Najat Vallaud-Belkacem: 'On migration issues, we would like those in power to stick to the numbers, facts and science'

Another narrative must emerge in the face of hostility towards migrants, which has become an electoral issue, argues French former minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, who is now the head of a charity supporting asylum seekers.

Published on July 10, 2025, at 4:00 am (Paris) Pascal Riché

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'Negotiating with Donald Trump is like playing chess with a pigeon'

By torpedoing the fledgling 15% international corporate tax, the president of the United States has shattered hopes for a fairer world by only benefitting American multinationals, writes Le Monde columnist Pascal Riché.

Published on July 8, 2025, at 7:01 am (Paris), updated on July 9, 2025, at 2:22 pm Pascal Riché

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Anne Deysine, US law expert: 'We are experiencing the dawn of a lawless society'

In an interview, Anne Deysine, a US law specialist, explains that the US Supreme Court's June 27 ruling would lead to institutional 'chaos,' as Trump is now able to keep changing US institutions and society through his executive orders, which are often illegal.

Published on July 1, 2025, at 3:00 am (Paris) Pascal Riché

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Michel Winock, historian: 'Since World War II, France has lost its position as an exporter of political ideas'

The Resistance dreamed of establishing a new democratic regime in France. Partisan tensions disrupted the project's development and France ended up swinging from one extreme (a parliamentary regime) to another (Bonapartism), explains Winock, a specialist in French political life.

Published on May 21, 2025, at 5:00 am (Paris) Pascal Riché

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Trump's reciprocity: A concept rooted in a tradition hostile to free trade

The US president justifies his protectionist policy by advocating for reciprocal tariffs. Initially an instrument to protect the American market before 1934, reciprocity later became a tool to open markets and returned to a protectionist stance in 1980.

Published on April 10, 2025, at 3:30 pm (Paris) Pascal Riché

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Trump tariffs: Four charts to understand their anticipated effects on the US economy

The US president's increased tariffs on imports to the US mainly suggest that he intends to bring globalization to an end.

Published on April 7, 2025, at 7:30 pm (Paris), updated on April 8, 2025, at 12:48 pm Julie Cassotti, Jérôme Gautheret, Pascal Riché and Benjamin Martinez

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Trump doesn't know it, but his protectionist hero, McKinley, ended up changing his stance

To justify his trade war, Donald Trump has referred to former president William McKinley, a protectionist who was in office at the turn of the 20th century. However, what is less known is that McKinley ended up regretting his aggressive trade policy, writes Le Monde columnist Pascal Riché.

Published on April 3, 2025, at 12:06 pm (Paris) Pascal Riché

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Pia Bailleul, anthropologist: 'Greenlanders are not afraid of Donald Trump'

The researcher, a specialist in mining anthropology and the Arctic, explains how Greenland intends to make use of the US president's interest in its natural resources, and capitalize on it in the geopolitical arena.

Published on February 16, 2025, at 6:00 pm (Paris), updated on February 25, 2025, at 3:27 pm Pascal Riché

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'It's hard to see how Elon Musk will be able to find $1 trillion in savings'

The billionaire American entrepreneur was appointed head of a mission to reduce the federal government's size. But his promises seem fanciful, argues journalist Pascal Riché in his column.

Published on January 25, 2025, at 5:00 pm (Paris) Pascal Riché

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Protectionism, a political history of the US from George Washington to Donald Trump

Against the opinion of economists, the president-elect intends to set high tariffs. This form of taxation has always been debated in the US. Even the Founding Fathers were divided over it.

Published on January 20, 2025, at 5:37 am (Paris), updated on January 20, 2025, at 10:28 am Pascal Riché

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Gilles Richard, historian: 'François Bayrou has some trump cards up his sleeve'

The new prime minister, a highly experienced Christian Democrat, is sufficiently equipped both to resist Emmanuel Macron and to navigate between parliamentary forces, judges the historian of right-wing politics.

Published on December 17, 2024, at 5:00 am (Paris), updated on December 17, 2024, at 10:40 am Pascal Riché

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Paul Magnette, leader of Belgium's Socialists: 'France's political rules make parliamentary democracy very difficult'

In an interview with Le Monde, the president of Belgium's Socialist Party argues that France's two-round majority system generates a culture that is the antithesis of parliamentary compromise.

Published on December 6, 2024, at 5:34 am (Paris), updated on December 6, 2024, at 9:07 am Pascal Riché