Maureen Orth explores how a once frumpy physicist has led her reluctant country to new prominence on the global stage.
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Russians prefer alternative reality. In the days since Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea, the Russian people are once again feeling good about their country. A robust 63 percent of them say…
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Now that Carla Bruni is no longer France’s First Lady, she might have expected the spotlight to be back on her music career with the release of her fourth album,…
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Former Irish President Mary Robinson on Gay Rights, Sheryl Sandberg—and Pope Francis’s Future
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Maureen Orth on the Summit Where the Secret Service Partied and Hillary Danced: What Else Happened in Cartagena?
Read moreFor decades France ignored its presidents’ private lives, but the ascension of Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, has turned that tradition on its head. Will rumors of infidelity, secret marriage contracts, and illegal wiretaps derail Sarkozy’s presidency? And is any of it true?
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