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A Prophecy, a Protest, a Priest A Prophecy, a Protest, a Priest

Recently, The Economist took out a full-page advertisement in the Financial Times of London boasting that it had predicted the coal miners' strike six years ago.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

People’s Sellout People’s Sellout

Wall Street did not simply drag Europe's exchanges down in its fall.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Herr Kohl’s New Economic Order Herr Kohl’s New Economic Order

Nineteen ninety-three, with its single market and its important steps toward monetary and political union, was to have been Europe's momentous A 1 year.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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

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