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Chief correspondent Paris and former Op-Ed columnist The New York Times. New book, “An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics,” Feb 2023 from Knopf.
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Trump does not like women. He cannot abide strong women. And he is absolutely terrified of strong competent smart women like Angela Merkel.
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Fiona Hill and the American Idea. A naturalized American exposes Trump's attack on what America is.
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My take on upheaval in Hong Kong and the threatening rise of of Xi’s China: via @NYTOpinion.
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There is only one word for President Trump threatening to target Iranian cultural sites: barbarism. Esfahan, a wonder of the world among countless others in Iran, has nothing to do with Soleimani and everything to do with world culture.
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Trump's treatment of Angela Merkel absolutely outrageous.
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John Kerry says Israel "under siege" by Hamas. Read that once. Read it twice. Three times. It doesn't get any better. We have a problem here.
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From the man who sent more than 5,000 troops to the border to face the (nonexistent) threat of the “caravan” we now get from Trump Productions the “crisis” he needs to distract from his woes. Networks should not play this game.
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Most significant change in the White House may be from a couple that loves each other to a couple that don't. The anger will go somewhere.
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A shameless Secretary of State: Another Inspector General Resigns, Raising Questions About Pompeo
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There is no “deep state” in the USA. The phrase is irritating. Deep state was a term that arose in Turkey to describe a predominantly military cabal with an anti-Islamist agenda, among other objectives. The USA is not Turkey. It has strong institutions. It has a state. Period.
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I am a European patriot for my children and grandchildren. It is they who will pay the price if the most beautiful post-war political idea dies. Why I Am a European Patriot
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"If Donald Trump were in virtually any other position of responsibility, action would already be under way to remove him from that role," argues @JamesFallows
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“You must understand, he is from the K.G.B., lying is his profession, it is not a sin,” said Sylvie Bermann, the French ambassador in Moscow from 2017 to 2020. The Making of Vladimir Putin
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Trump chooses Holocaust Memorial Day to slam the door shut on Syrian refugees. Dark hours in America.
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Received today in NYC, for a long piece “The Making of Vladimir Putin,” as part of the New York Times team honored for reporting on the war in Ukraine.
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Putin to the German Bundestag in 2001: “Russia is a friendly European nation. Stable peace on the continent is a paramount goal for our nation.” Whatever happened to Vladimir Putin? My take: The Making of Putin
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz: “At the heart of the matter is whether power can break the law.” That was also the question in Berlin in 1933 as Hitler took control. Moral outrage over war in Ukraine births European unity and power…
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Shame on Nobel Committee and Swedish King for handing Nobel literature prize to Peter Handke, who calls the Bosnian genocide myth. It happened: Bosnian Camp Survivors Describe Random Death #Handke #Nobel Prize @edvulliamy @maassp @rohded @elizabethrubin.
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Leaderless world. Every country for itself. Swirling lies. Schoolyard petulance, like Mike Pompeo, the worst American secretary of state in a long time, calling this coronavirus “the Wuhan virus.” This is Trump’s world, and Xi’s. No Way Out but Through
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Saudis, remember there is a universal jurisdiction for acts of torture. I think cutting off Khashoggi’s fingers would qualify. MBS should think twice about setting foot in USA or Europe or any country party to the Convention Against Torture.
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@realDonaldTrump This is stomach-turning. How about visiting the troops in war zones for the first time, Mr. President?.
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What the heck is Ivanka Trump doing next to Chancellor Angela Merkel at WH meeting?.
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Disgusting moment, and I measure my words: Trump telling Jake Turx, Jewish reporter, to "sit down" and ordering him to be quiet.
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I am shaking with rage at the attack on Charlie Hebdo. It's an attack on the free world. The entire free world should respond, ruthlessly.
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@dorothyofisrael @FLOTUS Typo? Yeah, sure. She's not writing this and you know it. This comes from the world of "warmest condolences.".
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via @NYTimes Laicité is “not an ideology. It is absolutely not anti-religious.” Rather “a means to bring people together.” At least it should be. A French official speaks out.
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via @nytimes My take on the effective takeover of the Central African Republic by Russia’s Wagner mercenaries…
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Iran deal: A victory for sanity with potential to usher a great civilization back into community of nations. Hawks will holler. Let them.
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I spent three weeks in Odesa, the storied city on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast that is an obsession of Vladimir Putin: via @NYTimes.
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@realDonaldTrump They’re Americans just like you, @POTUS. Remind me, where did your family come from? You negate the American idea with these slurs.
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Never underestimate the Iranian people. They are brave. They want representative government. #IranianProtests.
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A Bastille Day surprise: A Légion d’honneur. For “42 years of service”. That long since I began seeking the heart of France. Émouvant.
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The most irresponsible president in American history: The Trumpcare Disaster
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Macron pushes European military resolve in #Ukraine, suggests possible boots on the ground. “Should we delegate our future to the American voter?” Mr. Macron asked. “My response is no.” Insists on need to unsettle Putin through “strategic ambiguity.”
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Macron: “I never said I want moderate Muslims. That is not my problem. I don’t ask a Catholic to be moderate. When it comes to someone’s religion, that does not concern me. On other hand, I demand of every citizen, whatever their religion, to respect the rules of the Republic.".
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Inside Donald Trump there another person struggling to get out. and it's another little Donald Trump even needier and dumber than original.
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Saying goodbye today to my beloved Ned, sweetest of souls. Cancer took him. All about love to the very end.
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My take on an India stepping up in a multi-aligned new world. Russia’s War Could Make It India’s World
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No, Mr Bannon, we will not keep our mouths shut: Am I Imagining This?
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Trump inaugural: "This American carnage stops rights here and stops right now." Not quite. Las Vegas=American carnage. Peculiarly American.
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Bloomberg's most devastating line on Trump, one billionaire to another: "I'm a New Yorker and I know a con when I see one.".
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Want to understand the Iranian protests? Read this. Ayatollah Khamenei, stop telling women how tight their jeans should be! Why I Left Iran to Play Chess in America
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An eye for an eyelash. Israel always overreaches: The Insanity at the Gaza Fence
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Nicolas Cadène, à l’avant-poste du combat pour la laïcité
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An era has ended in France. The 7-year domination of national politics by President Emmanuel Macron was laid to rest by his party’s overwhelming defeat in the first round of parliamentary elections. The Center Collapses in France, Leaving Macron Marooned
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It is not easy to escape the conclusion that the West is a bystander to the brazen dismemberment of a sovereign European nation.
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The American moral collapse personified by Trump is not “beautiful” or “phenomenal” or any of the president’s other clunky superlatives. It’s sickening and dangerous. The Donald Thinks D-Day Is About Him
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The President of the United States thinks his daughter Ivanka treated unfairly by @Nordstrom. Next up T.J. Maxx. Meanwhile in Syria. .
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Trump's "America First" galvanized other countries to put their own interests first, too. They will not soon fall into line behind the USA. Trump Bequeaths Biden an Upended World
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In Putin's Russia, so admired by Trump, Mike Flynn would be dead.
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Peter Handke, in Stockholm to receive literature Nobel prize, is the great denialist of genocide perpetrated by Serbs against Bosnian Muslims. I chronicled that mass murder in 1994. Bosnian Camp Survivors Describe Random Death #NobelPrize #Handke @maassp.
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Trump tells London Times he'll start out trusting Merkel and Putin and "see how long that lasts." So Germany/Russia now on same footing!?.
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The devastating impact of Australia's "Offshore Processing" of refugees and asylum-seekers: Broken Men in Paradise
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via @nytimes “This war is about extinguishing Ukraine’s right to exist as a state, plain and simple,” Mr. Biden said. He continued: “Whoever you are, wherever you live, whatever you believe, that should make your blood run cold.”
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Trump is an impostor at the D-Day commemoration: The Donald Thinks D-Day Is About Him
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.@BBCBreaking Time for Britain to stand in solidarity with Germany, too, and stop the Brexit madness. This image is Europe. Europe needed.
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Olympic Ceremony Put a Changing France on Full Display. Aya Nakamura, the French Malian singer, redefined what it is to be French at the gates of the Académie Française:
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When Germany warns Jews not to wear kippas, it’s not just Jews who should start worrying. #spirallingdownward.
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via @nytimes There is no going back now on the biggest transformation since the end of the Cold War. My take:
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Behind the Kavanaugh confirmation process: An Insidious and Contagious American Presidency
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Vive la France! Best team won. Victory also for Macron, openness, diversity, Europe, youth -- against intolerance, xenophobes, Brexit, nationalists, nativists and the rest. Chapeau also to valiant Croatia, great side!.
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A Munich Security Conference marked by stunned nervousness over the possibility of a European war, diminished by harsh Covid-19 restrictions and missing the Russian participation that has often stirred vigorous debate.
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Brexit could unravel. First time I’ve believed that possible. And it will be the hubris of the maximalist Brexiters who have opened the door to sanity through their lack of any.
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Never forget. Coco’s Choice: A Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist’s Road Back From Hell
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“I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.” Of American idealism and harsh realities: For US, and Afghanistan, the Post-9/11 Era Ends Painfully - The New York Times
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Macron-Le Pen going to be close. Anyone who thinks otherwise dreaming. The urge to shake things up as strong in France as U.S./UK. #France.
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Delighted to say honored with a Pulitzer Prize (International) as part of stellar New York Times team for reporting on Ukraine. A remarkable 7-part submission of reportage, photography, video, audio and graphics included my “The Making of Vladimir Putin,” a 7,000-word portrait.
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“People are so exhausted their greatest fear is not so much a new variant but a new curfew.”Across the World, Covid Anxiety and Depression Take Hold
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@thomaschattwill The reason there are not mass anti-war protests is that Europeans don’t believe war is coming.
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The earth acquires a new quality of silence: My Dad is gone. Sons Without Fathers
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World Cup 2018 in Putin's Russia? I say no. Lawless, violent E. Ukraine his creation, contempt for the truth and for the dead his "culture.".
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How Trump progresses toward his triple objective: destruction of the EU, NATO and the WTO.
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I did not thank you enough for those clear winter mornings, for that dive I love on West 26th, for your tolerance, for your open arms, for your ampleness, for New York Noodletown, for your secrets slowly revealed, Come Back, New York, All Is Forgiven
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Trump's failure to condemn white supremacist neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville utterly unsurprising. And that's devastating. @POTUS.
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Downing Flight 17 is act of war. Dutch special forces, backed by NATO, should secure site where their citizens being defiled even in death.
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The press should provide zero coverage of the Saudi Davos-in-the-Desert event. Just ignore it. To say anything only gives it credibility. Silence honors Khashoggi.
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Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza. What it provokes in me. Zionism and Its Discontents http://t.co/UbgqXGgLzy.
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Miguel Herrera, Mexico manager, is definitely the personality of World Cup so far. Irresistible! Arriba Mexico!.
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