A year ago many pundits feared that Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s government would turn out to be a radical one. This was not just because of her party’s roots in the extreme right but also because she came to office promising big change.
Congress has once again been making headlines for all the wrong reasons, with multiple news outlets in recent months touting the current 118th Congress as possibly the least productive in the institution’s history. In 2023, Congress only passed 34 bills into law, the lowest number in decades.
Les élections européennes revêtent en Italie, comme dans l’ensemble des États membres de l’Union européenne, une double signification. Elles représentent tout d’abord un jalon dans la vie politique interne, une échéance qui permet aux partis d’enregistrer leur niveau de popularité auprès des citoyens et d’en tirer les conclusions en termes de stratégie électorale ultérieure. Elles permettent ensuite la constitution des différents groupes parlementaires européens et débouchent sur la formation de la nouvelle législature de l’assemblée parlementaire strasbourgeoise, avec une influence directe sur la constitution de la future Commission européenne (celle-ci doit obtenir le vote de confiance du Parlement européen pour pouvoir entrer en fonction au début de son mandat).
Every American president has landed in the history books. And historians’ assessments of their performance have been generally consistent over time. But some presidents’ rankings have changed as the nation – and historians themselves – reassessed the country’s values and priorities.
In April 2024, during Passover, a group of American rabbis approached a border crossing in Israel. Affiliated with Rabbis for Ceasefire, the group joined Jewish Israeli activists attempting to deliver food to Gazans.
As record-high numbers of undocumented migrants cross the United States-Mexico border illegally, one key question is how the U.S. got into this situation, and what lessons can be learned from how other countries respond to border security and immigration problems.
The division between right and left around the world has rarely felt more polarised. Of course there have always been differences between people on the different ends of the political spectrum, but now it seems they are living in different worlds entirely. This is perhaps related to the tendency for those on the right to focus on the past and to strive for a world that once was and the tendency for those on the left to do the opposite.
Nearly all the world’s governments and vast numbers of its people are convinced that addressing human-induced climate change is essential if healthy societies are to survive. The two solutions most often proposed go by various names but are widely known as “green growth” and “degrowth”. Can these ideas be reconciled? What do both have to say about the climate challenge?
Cet article s’appuie sur des recherches menées par l’Initiative mondiale contre la criminalité transnationale organisée (GI-TOC) dans le cadre du projet OCWAR-T. OCWAR-T est un projet en soutien à la Commission de la Cédéao, financé par l’Union européenne et le ministère fédéral allemand des Affaires étrangères, et coordonné par la Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). Le rapport complet peut être trouvé ici.
The UK government has received internal legal advice that Israel has broken international humanitarian law in its current war on Gaza. The advice was revealed by Alicia Kearns, the Conservative chair of the House of Commons foreign affairs select committee, in a speech to a fundraising event on March 13 and leaked to the UK’s Observer newspaper.
« Permettre un réarmement démographique » : l’expression employée par le président Emmanuel Macron pour décrire son plan de relance de la natalité et de lutte contre l’infertilité a suscité de vives réactions. Il ne s’agit pas ici de juger la pertinence de ce plan annoncé lors de sa conférence de presse du 16 janvier 2024. Notre objectif est d’analyser ce que cette formule révèle de la difficulté de décideurs, gouvernementaux notamment, à comprendre la psychologie des comportements (et changements comportementaux). Sans cette compréhension, ils s’avèrent incapables de déterminer quelles conditions et caractéristiques doivent être respectées pour qu’une communication à visée persuasive soit efficace.
If at 58, I were to agree to a boxing match with a person half my age, much alarm would be caused. My daughters would burst into tears, my partner would have strong words, and my students would have final confirmation that I had lost the plot. I, however, am not “Iron Mike” Tyson.
Much of the news coverage of the discussions and negotiations aimed at averting a government shutdown on Nov. 17, 2023, relies on pundits and their unnamed sources, on leaks, speculation, wishful thinking and maybe even the reading of tea leaves. The Conversation tapped an expert on congressional behavior, Northwestern University political scientist Laurel Harbridge-Yong, and asked her what she sees when she looks at the prolonged trouble Congress has had over the past few years coming to agreement on the debt ceiling and spending to keep the government open. Harbridge-Yong is a specialist in partisan conflict and the lack of bipartisan agreement in American politics, so her expertise is tailor-made for the moment.
Interrogations of university leaders spearheaded by conservative congressional representatives. Calls from right-wing senators for troops to intervene in campus demonstrations. Hundreds of student and faculty arrests, with nonviolent dissenters thrown to the ground, tear-gassed and tased.
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