Macron’s moment of crisis

As the world’s democratic and non-democratic tectonic plates continue to grind, the perpetual content feed is the new battlefield.

French President Emmanuel Macron, pictured in June, on Dec. 10 pledged to boost France’s minimum wage, among other pocketbook measures meant to ease the gilets jaunes protest movement against him. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

December 12, 2018

The contagion of chaos that’s been systematically choking Western democracies like hapless houseguests in a musty Agatha Christie whodunit has recently taken hold in France. While the previously unthinkable disruption of Donald Trump’s presidency ensnares America and the previously unthinkable ...

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