Jeremy Paxman once explained the secret of his interviewing technique - before speaking to a politician, he simply asks himself “why is this lying bastard lying to me?” In the case of Colombian president Alvaro Uribe, a journalist would be well advised to stiffen the measure: “Why is this blood-thirsty, amoral gangster lying to me?” […]

There’s a long and no doubt bitter election campaign still ahead before we can start talking about “President Obama”. But sober observers of the US political scene are confident enough to predict that the first African-American to get this close to the White House is going to win - and win big.
Immanuel Wallerstein argued recently […]

The first decade of the millennium has seen an intense focus on the politics of the Middle East. Not that the region was considered insignificant at any time since the Second World War. But a series of events that include the 9/11 attacks, the second intifada, America’s war in Iraq and the bloody confrontation between […]

Travail Flexible, Salaries Jetables: Fausses questions et vrais enjeux de la lutte contre le chomage - Michel Husson (ed.)
Editions La Découverte, Paris, 2006

Over the past decade, France has displayed something of a split personality when it comes to political orientation. On the one hand, there have been impressive mobilisations against neo-liberalism: […]