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Petit Prince de Saint-Exupéry Ce dessin au style enfantin est l'œuvre de la dessinatrice Fauna93 sur le site DeviantArt . c...

Americans tend to tell us so many nasty stories about everyday problems in their immense land (not to mention stories of the candidate Trump...

I’m old-fashioned… which isn’t surprising in the case of a fellow born in 1940. I belong to a generation of old-timers who were never tempte...

Fox News has a “specialist” named Nolan Peterson (a former GI) who informed the world, last week, that there are so-called No-Go Zones i...

It's nice of Barack Obama to tell his fellow-citizens that their nation has no intention of preying upon their private lives. It...

As an authentic grass-roots American media celebrity, Wolf Blitzer is expected to praise God on CNN. From time to time, inevitably, in the ...

Who's this young lady? And what's she doing? She's an American schoolteacher, and she's using a commonplace whiteboard...

In the special case of a great American city such as Detroit, which played a central role in the history of the automobile, it's fitting...

In my recent article entitled Shot stupidly for truffles [ display ] , I evoked the banal subject of rural people here in France who own sh...

In the wake of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, President George W Bush instigated a process aimed at overhauling the US intelli...

I remember a short Manhattan holiday of my son and me, long ago. I had a vague wish to show my son America. In our dull hotel room, we watch...

When I was a kid in the 1940s, the world was a nice friendly place, full of nice friendly puzzles. When we picked up a glossy magazine, we w...

Now that Barack Obama has released explicit data concerning the use of torture by US authorities, I'm convinced that, sooner or later, ...

It's great that Barack Obama can now, at last, get to grips with his true opponent: John McCain . However, the time lost in wrangling w...

I know it's not nice to talk disparagingly about the physical features of people. But, seriously, wouldn't you agree with me that th...

I love this deliberately-distorted image (by Jason Reed) of the Democratic candidate Barack Obama campaigning at Exeter High School in New ...

I believe it would be good for god-fearing humanity [including Mormons, above all], good for half the US population and good for fun-loving ...

Stephen Prothero , of the religion department at Boston University, has just published a book entitled Religious Literacy: What Every Americ...

Attorney general Alberto Gonzales , old Texan friend and colleague of George W Bush, has finally resigned, after accusations of screwing up ...

A few evenings ago, a splendid French TV special on the Clinton couple attempted to harmonize Hillary's current bid for the presidency ...