We're 9 years close from this gem, what a time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqZY...

Exceptional interview by Libé with Gisèle Pelicot.

I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

Wow, America is about to give us a chance to run a reverse Card & Krueger design.

Great piece by the Arab Barometer.

This really changes the political arena in Libya.

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Excellent reporting here on Egypt's growing intervention in Sudan flying Turkish-made drones from a remote base at the Sudanese border. Since last November, Egyptian drone attacks have largely closed down the UAE-RSF supply route via Kufra in Libya.

🎉 This is now out in the latest @apsrjournal.bsky.social issue with page numbers! We find that modernization and expanding state reach through railroad construction in Europe tended to produce backlash and separatism among peripheral ethnic minorities.

Happy that my article just published in PSRM! In "Inclusion to Exclude“, I show that when politicians invoke women's rights to justify anti-immigration positions, it shifts citizens' policy preferences - but differently so depending on their prior views. doi.org/10.1017/psrm... [Thread below]

In 1978, the World Cup helped whitewash the Argentinian dictatorship. In 2026, we refuse to let football distract from mass deportations and state violence in the U.S. No football between camps. #BoycottWorldCup2026

This kid and his father entered via CBP One app. It's just absurd and monumentally unfair for people who availed themselves of lawful channels when they existed by following government processes to suddenly get detained and deported to a third country. newrepublic.com/article/2056...

Hâte de commencer mon cours au Collège de France comme Professeure invitée sur la chaire annuelle "L'invention de l'Europe par les langues et les cultures"en partenariat avec le Ministère de la Culture de France. Ouvert à toutes et à tous! ❤️😍

Excellent speech by Macron. Pushed back against the international far-right and ridiculed Trump, making fun of him multiple times.

It’s shocking to me the lack of response from the American population (elite & non-elite) to the craziness of the current administration. Protests against ICE are good, but at the same time Americans seem to be brushing off the imperial craziness of the regime and barely any public opposition.

On the subject of World Cup boycotts, this is a story which ought to be much better known: why African countries decided not to compete for a place at the 1966 tournament. One of Fifa's most shameful moments, which hardly ever gets a mention. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-a...

But Merz and Schoof want to buy €90B of American weapons. Cowards.

Everyday a new story…

Macron’s party is backing Louis Sarkozy, the former president’s son, in the mayoral race in Menton. What’s striking is that he is a far-right celebrity candidate—author of books and articles on the decline of men and Napoleon’s greatness—running on a platform to unite the right and the far right.

He is, unfortunately, on French media 24/7 as the “US analyst”…

What a time to be alive.

Donc on va avoir les législatives et municipales, intéressant.

Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress.

[wakes up] “I’m sorry, what”

Le mathématicien et ancien député macroniste Cédric Villani raconte sa prise de conscience écologique, qui le conduit à qualifier le projet de l’A69 de «tragédie représentative de l’absurdité de notre société». Il confie aussi ses espoirs et ses inquiétudes vis-à-vis de l'IA : bit.ly/4qzoboI

Neil Kinnock: “Labour is ‘100 per cent wrong’ on Reform”.

Bari Weiss something something freedom of speech, something something cancel culture.

I've been watching more and more Arab movies and TV shows recently (for research purposes ofc), and the Arab Film & Media Institute has just posted the full list of their 100 Greatest Arab Films Of All Time. letterboxd.com/arabfilm/lis...

Trois livres marquants de 2025 partagent un spectre : la figure de Saint-Simon. Pour @picharbonnier.bsky.social, « le néo-saint-simonisme est une vague idéologique et politique qui n’a pas encore totalement déferlé sur monde — mais cela ne saurait tarder. » legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/12/1...

A historic moment in Parisian municipal politics. The Socialist Party and Green Party have a unified list led by Emmanuel Grégoire. He is very likely to be the next mayor of Paris.

I’ve been wanting to write a paper on this for so long.

NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.

The French former President’s heavily-memed, harrowing book about his nearly three weeks of incarceration reads “like a droning Christmas-card letter,” Lauren Collins writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/3tkZA1

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

For the first time in French history, a poll has the far-right RN candidate, here Jordan Bardella, winning the 2nd round of the election:

Le musée d’Art moderne de Paris consacre une exposition à Otobong Nkanga : ses œuvres, patchwork de matières, textures et formes, mêlent questionnements identitaires et critique de la destruction de notre planète.

New on Nebula: which cities have improved the most in the last 15 years? nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

In light of current reminders about how powerful rich men exploit and assault young women under the safety and guise of various forms of “employment,“ just wanna give a shout out to NYT for this gem last week where we learned about how #metoo *actually* ended harming the workplace. 🙄

Everyone is saying it. Literally everyone

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

In this symposium on Syria contributors paint nuanced, grim, but clear-eyed pictures of multiple transitional challenges. Comparisons to other cases and situation in poli sci lit remind us Syria's not terribly unique. Amazingly, they all suggest ways through the obstacles. zenodo.org/records/1745...

As a new generation of train makes its inaugural journey in the French capital this week, enthusiasts on board see it as proof of the system’s superiority.

A record 154,000 public school students in New York City were homeless during the last school year, according to data released Monday. It's grim evidence that the city’s worsening housing crisis is wreaking havoc on its youngest and most vulnerable residents. nyti.ms/43rE1II

It's easy to mock the French for seeming to want unlimited government spending. I've done it myself. But I sympathise with their anger: France is an underfunded social democracy crossed with an oligarchy. Me @financialtimes.com on France's undertaxed billionaires - close to Macron on.ft.com/4qwaFDh

So CBS as an outlet just copies and retypes reports from the Free Press? Yikes.

The new surprise Prime Minister in France is… the outgoing resigned Prime Minister.

What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong on.ft.com/42wdJ82 | opinion