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It is the fall of an icon, and, more surprising to the French side of the Atlantic, the end of an immense sporting career because of conjugal infidelities (with a capital « I »). It's Tiger Woods, the ideal Black-American son-in-law before the sudden emergence of Barack Obama, the greatest professional golfer in history and also the richest (he's the first billionaire in sport, according to Forbes Magazine), who has announced that he's suspending his career indefinitely, after a cascade of revelations about his personal life. La suite

Can global warming be in doubt ? Heavily criticized for his column in Le Monde, Serge Galam maintains his right to be skeptical. La suite

The triumph of neo-liberalism on the other side of the Atlantic may be explained - like almost everything else in American history - by inflation and racial conflict. The 1970's were years of historic compromise : Blacks were integrated into the great American family in a legal sense, but at the price of abandoning all social demands. The « stagflation » that shook the economy catalyzed a process that was to extend over the next three decades and dispute all the social breakthroughs of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. La suite

Print publications moving online have often failed, some for financial reasons, others through misunderstanding the new medium. A few still try to use the Internet as a broadcast medium ; many, seeing the rise of blogs, « citizens » journalism » and other participatory structures, worry about the future for the professional journalist. Laurent Mauriac and Pascal Riché, members of the team behind French politics website Rue89, explain how they attempt to bridge the gap between print and the Internet by encouraging contributions from experts and web users, but using journalists to coordinate, direct and edit this participation. La suite

The cover is quite amusing : Nicolas Sarkozy, on a podium, wryly regards Angela Merkel, who is pulling a long face on the ground below, while Gordon Brown and the « Anglo-Saxons » disappear through the bottom. This is the revenge of the « French model, » according to one of its principal detractors : the capitalist British weekly The Economist. La suite

In anticipation of the revision of the law on bioethics, detractors and supporters of « gestational surrogacy » (GS) are all fired-up. This article focuses on why. La suite

  In a report made public last Tuesday, the Academy of Medicine recommended breastfeeding and longer postnatal maternity leave. I was wondering what feminists thought of this. Are they furious about more pressure on women ? Not really. They are, in fact, quite divided over the issue. La suite

To fight a war, one must perform many calculations. The enemy forces, the weather, the distance, the stockpiles of munitions. And the electoral calendar. That of the United States has played a role in the Middle East conflict : war has been engaged between the death of one presidency and the birth of another. For the Israelis, there was no more favorable moment to « go too far. » La suite

It is polite, for diplomats, to call for « restraint » from Israelis and Palestinians, and to condemn in the same breath Israel's raids and Hamas's rocket attacks. Not being a diplomat, I can try to go a bit further. First, an observation : December 27 was the most lethal day between Israelis and Palestinians since 1967, that is, since the occupation by Israel of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza. In other words, we're not dealing with just one more episode in the long and bloody history between these two peoples. La suite

In the United States, even the poor admire those who succeed. When someone tells you, you French people, that Total has raked in record profits this year, you snarl that capitalists are getting fat on the backs of consumers and that we should be looking at a redistribution of wealth. La suite