Maxime Marquette
MadMax is an independent bilingual news outlet based in Québec, publishing analysis on geopolitics, technology, democracy, and culture.
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
4,540 columns published
"Despicable Me: Minions & Monsters" leads before summer's wave hits
Introduction: a Wednesday that has all of French cinema smiling
Chairman Comer demands Todd Blanche explain himself on the Epstein files
Introduction: a committee that refuses to drop the Epstein case
A year after the ICE raids, Los Angeles is still paying the bill
Introduction: a city still reeling, a year later
Mr. President, your cuts to students will not stand
Introduction: a letter to an administration that wanted to cap the future
On Bulgaria's roads, NATO flexes its southeastern flank
Introduction: convoys telling the story of an alliance in motion
In Los Angeles, endless immune cells take aim at cancer
Introduction: a promise born in a Los Angeles lab
Taliban drones target Balochistan as Afghanistan-Pakistan escalation resumes
Introduction: two neighbors, a border on fire
Kash Patel again tells Congress the Epstein "list" has zero names on it
Introduction: a line that keeps coming back, again and again
A soil bacterium reveals an unprecedented arsenal of four antibiotics
Introduction: a discovery hidden in the soil for millions of years