Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
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The rush on air conditioners, a mirror of a France gasping for breath
It is 8 a.m. on Thursday, July 2, 2026, outside a Lidl store in Nanterre. A hundred or so people have waited
Trump's Department of Education, an empty shell and proud of it
Education Secretary Linda McMahon has made significant progress on what she herself describes as her "final mission": dissolving her own federal agency.
Only 57,000 jobs added in June, Trump's economy stalls
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a jobs report this Thursday, July 2, 2026, confirming what several economists had feared for months:
The deadly strike on Kyiv reveals Putin's real strategy
On the night of July 1 to 2, 2026, Russia launched one of its deadliest aerial attacks of the year against Kyiv,
Claude Science, the tool that could accelerate Western scientific research
On June 30, 2026, Anthropic unveiled Claude Science, a workspace designed to transform how researchers conduct their daily work. Far from being
Do GLP-1 drugs really produce the weight loss everyone claims
For several years, drugs in the GLP-1 receptor agonist family have made headlines, sometimes hailed as a weight-loss miracle, sometimes suspected of
To NATO, which is finally daring to aim for 5% of GDP on defense
Dear leaders of NATO, I am writing you this open letter just days before the Ankara summit, scheduled for July 7 and
Blanche Accused of Conceding His Own Epstein Law Violation
Some silences carry a steep price. On June 26, 2026, federal judge Emmet Sullivan signed a 48-page memorandum opinion that will stand
Inside New York's Courtrooms, the Never-Ending Battle Over the Epstein Files
For several years now, two federal judges in New York have each carried, on their own side of the docket, the weight