Normalizing the State of Emergency

France’s recent anti-terror legislation

This measure codifies what has been an ongoing state of emergency, originally enacted by the Socialist President Francois Hollande in the wake of the attacks of November 2015. Since then, the state of emergency has been extended six more times in the face of ten more attacks, reinforcing what has ...
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Trump and the Anti-Establishment Fantasy

The Balance of Power in the New Trump Administration

After running as a political outsider, Donald Trump now finds himself having to navigate between two uneasily aligned factions. On one side is an emboldened right-populist base, personified by incoming White House chief strategist and Senior Counselor Stephen Bannon, that wants to see a fundamental turnover among the people in ...
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Trump and the Anti-Establishment Fantasy