More than a year after losing the summer 2024 snap elections, French president Emmanuel Macron is being forced to accept his first significant policy retreat--suspending his unpopular increase in the pension age. My latest for @thenation.com : www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Le parlement européen se prononce demain sur l'immunité parlementaire d'Ilaria Salis, eurodéputée italienne poursuivie par Viktor Orbán. Pour @mediapart.fr, je reviens sur cette affaire et la campagne plus large contre le mouvement "antifa" en Europe et aux US. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

Le Parlement européen se prononce mardi sur la levée de l’immunité parlementaire d’Ilaria Salis, eurodéputée poursuivie par la justice hongroise. Le vote s’inscrit dans une surenchère «anti-antifa», de part et d’autre de l’Atlantique. @harrstetler.bsky.social www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

French PM Sébastien Lecornu submitted his resignation this morning to Emmanuel Macron, less than a day after announcing a government that drew wide condemnation. Is there a way out for Macron? My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social : jacobin.com/2025/10/macr...

France's new PM Sébastien Lecornu has closed the door on a rapprochement with the center left. My latest for @thenation.com on the political paralysis in France: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Large union-led protests and strikes are expected tomorrow in France in rejection of Emmanuel Macron. My latest for @thenation.com on the French crisis and Macron's dwindling options: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

One big driver of France's entwined political/fiscal crises is Macron's refusal to retreat on his economic agenda, namely the tax breaks for corporations and the rich enacted since 2017. The country needs new taxation on wealth. My latest for @nytimes.com : www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

I wrote about the latest political crisis in France for @thenation.com , as PM François Bayrou approaches an almost certainly fatal confidence vote called for September 8: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I wrote about @thomasporcher.bsky.social's new book "Le Vacataire" and the crisis of higher education in France. In this week's @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/politics-soc...

For @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I wrote about Brecht, rearmament and the slippery uses of "tragedy": jacobin.com/2025/08/brec...

My latest for the @thenation.com on the ad industry's role in the climate crisis and the push for regulations: www.thenation.com/article/envi...

On Thursday, a French appeals court upheld George Abdallah's release from prisoner, after nearly 41 years behind bars. Check out my @jacobinmag.bsky.social long read from last October on the life and times of Georges Abdallah, Europe's longest held political prisoner: jacobin.com/2024/10/geor...

For @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I wrote about French PM François Bayrou's budget proposal and the coming battle over a new round of austerity in France: jacobin.com/2025/07/fran...

Georges Abdallah va être libéré fin juillet. Dans mon dernier article pour @mediapart, je reviens sur le rôle joué par les États-Unis dans son maintien en détention, qui a fait d'Abdallah le plus ancien prisonnier politique en Europe: www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

Bonne fête nationale! This Bastille Day, we’re revisiting @harrstetler.bsky.social’s 2024 review of “Paris Is Not Dead” by Cole Stanger, exploring gentrification in the city of lights. nyra.nyc/articles/we-...

I spoke with Ian Brossat, Paris' former Communist Party deputy mayor of housing policy, about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and what lessons NYC can draw from the French capital's attempts to confront the cost of living and housing crisis. Via @jacobinmag.bsky.social : jacobin.com/2025/07/bros...

The Israel-Iran crisis was another big failure for European "diplomacy," again revealing the refusal by European states to seriously distinguish themselves from Trump and the US. My latest for @thenation.com : www.thenation.com/article/worl...

My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the fall out of the French Socialist Party's congress in mid June. One year after the formation of the New Popular Front, France's left-wing parties are more divided than ever: jacobin.com/2025/06/macr...

I spoke with Salah Hamouri about the threat of a "dissolution" order targeting @urgencepalestine.bsky.social, as the French government prepares to ban the country's leading Palestine solidarity campaign : jacobin.com/2025/06/fran...

Interviewed Benjamin Lemoine for @jacobinmag.bsky.social about the politics of sovereign debt : jacobin.com/2025/05/debt...

I wrote about Lorraine de Sagazan's new play Léviathan, a brilliant satire of the French justice system and the politics of the law: In this week's @thetls.bsky.social : www.the-tls.co.uk/arts/theatre...

My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the April 25 murder of Aboubakar Cissé and the struggle to confront Islamophobia in France: jacobin.com/2025/05/fran...

For @thenation.com, I wrote about the battle over Big Tech in the broader US-EU trade war: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Important read on the political reach of the French oligarchy

I wrote about Bernard Arnault, luxury and the trade war for @jacobinmag.bsky.social : jacobin.com/2025/04/arna...

I wrote about European rearmament, for @thenation.com : www.thenation.com/article/worl...

My latest for @thenation.com, on the Le Pen verdict : www.thenation.com/article/worl...

French PM François Bayrou is scuttling the negotiations on Macron's 2023 pension reform that he promised this winter to secure the premiership, as rearmament feeds calls for yet another increase in the retirement age. My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social : jacobin.com/2025/03/fran...

My report for @thenation.com on Viktor Orbán's attempt to track down counter-demonstrators of a 2023 neo-Nazi rally in Budapest. A French court will soon decide on the extradition of one of them: Rexhino "Gino" Abajaz. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I wrote about the French media and political class's dangerous obsession with Rima Hassan, for @jacobinmag.bsky.social : jacobin.com/2025/03/rima...

Where does environmentalism go from here? My review of @clementsenechal.bsky.social's new book on the failures of the environmental movement, now up at @jacobinmag.bsky.social : jacobin.com/2025/03/envi...

France's Parti Socialiste opted to prop up PM François Bayrou and allow the adoption of his govt's budget this week. My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the growing rift in the left-wing Nouveau Front Populaire: jacobin.com/2025/02/macr...

For @thenation.com, I wrote about Elon Musk's "Make Europe Great Again" offensive and the EU vs. Silicon Valley fight over big tech power: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the "Hague Group." As the leading EU powers refuse to uphold the ICC warrants against Netanyahu, and as the US actively undermines the Hague-based courts, Global South countries are organizing to defend international law: jacobin.com/2025/02/hagu...

For @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I wrote about France's new rules tightening the pathway to work/residency papers for undocumented immigrants. The PS is turning the blind eye and will not censure Bayrou's government tomorrow. But will the move be enough to coax le Pen? jacobin.com/2025/02/fran...

I wrote about Brecht and staging life under fascism, in this week's @thetls.bsky.social : www.the-tls.co.uk/arts/theatre...

In this week's @thetls.bsky.social, I wrote about Aurélien Bellanger's "The Last Days of the Socialist Party," a new satire of intellectual narcissism and France's turn to the hard right. www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/f...

"This is a history of the unmaking of contemporary France, seen through dinner-party gossip and spin-room chatter" @harrstetler.bsky.social on Aurélien Bellanger's latest in this week's @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/f...

Last Thursday, France's Parti Socialiste broke from the left-wing New Popular Front NFP and opted not to censure Macron's new PM François Bayrou. My latest for @jacobin, on the PS overtures to the Macronists: jacobin.com/2025/01/fran...

My latest for @thenation.com on Europe and Trump II : is it too late for the EU to unwind its dependence on the U.S. ? www.thenation.com/article/worl...

My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the fall of the Barnier government and Macron's new PM pick François Bayrou. Unclear just where the new gov't will go from here. Some overtures to center-left are possible, but could still double down on appeasing Le Pen. jacobin.com/2024/12/macr...

Led by the Parti Socialiste, the French center left is angling towards propping up a national unity government with the Macronists -- and away from left-wing unity under the New Popular Front. My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the political crisis in France: jacobin.com/2024/12/fran...

Had a nice time speaking with @ciarandold.bsky.social and @umawrnkl.bsky.social over at @cornerspaeti.bsky.social about the Draghi report, Europe vs Trump 2 and the ever elusive "strategic autonomy" : www.operationglad.io/333

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 The French word for "flop era." We have on @harrstetler.bsky.social on to talk about EU industrial strategy and the Draghi report, deemed too Südlander for the EU to take seriously Listen over at operationglad.io or wherever you get podcasts

My latest for @thenation.com, on the collapse of the Barnier government and where France's political crisis goes from here: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

1st post to bsky with my latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the Le Pen embezzlement scandal in France. Marine Le Pen's party is accused of stealing millions of euros from the EU parliament, with the far right in uproar over possible ineligibility ruling for its leader jacobin.com/2024/11/le-p...