Fiddling While Rome Smolders Fiddling While Rome Smolders
Is Italy on the eve of a major political crisis? Is a change of regime, or perhaps even the birth of a new republic, imminent?
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Rouge et Noir Rouge et Noir
Were there half a million or a million people marching in the Parisian drizzle on January 16? No one can say.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Hate in a Warm Climate Hate in a Warm Climate
He came, he threatened, but he didn't conquer. The French Riviera will not be the first important region in Europe to be ruled by neofascists.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Five Davs That Shook the Party Five Davs That Shook the Party
From February 6 through February 10, more than 1,700 delegates to the French Communist Party's twenty-fifth congress met in the roofed-over sports stadium at Saint-Ouen, a suburb...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Specter of Capitalism The Specter of Capitalism
The rulers of the capitalist world who came to Paris for the bicentennial celebrations last month were in a smug mood.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Creeping Capitalism Creeping Capitalism
Europe's landscape is changing--dramatically in its Eastern half, which is groping toward capitalism, and less spectacularly in the Western part, which is on the road to a sin...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Fast Forward Fast Forward
The sorcerer's apprentices could not even stage a coup.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Something Rotten in the Kingdom Something Rotten in the Kingdom
When in London, if you have some time to spare, go east to the Isle of Dogs to visit what was to have been Europe's biggest office-plus-housing project.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Algeria Slides Into Civil War Algeria Slides Into Civil War
Voici le temps des assassins, the bilingual Algerians could exclaim, echoing Rimbaud, when nearly a year ago, their intellectuals began to be slaughtered by Islamic fundamentali...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Election ’95–Fractured France Election ’95–Fractured France
The miracle did not happen. Dynamics, as Lionel Jospin had hoped, did not defeat arithmetic. On his third try, Jacques Chirac made it. The Socialist interlude is over.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer