Category: Eyes on the U.S.

The unemployment rate on Montana’s Fort Peck Indian reservation can reach 70%, with scant signs of ways to turn around the local economy. Still, the recent reintroduction of the pure breed of bison can, in tangible ways and otherwise, means somet

A return to what is considered “natural” hair for African-American women is also showing up on Europe’s top fashion runways. The afro used to be a political statement, today it’s more likely a fashion statement.

To teach business ethics to students, several MBA programs are inviting convicted white-collar criminals to talk about how they defrauded their companies.

Analysis: A Swiss correspondent in Washington, like others from the Old Continent, has concluded that Obama lacked the leadership skills necessary to meet the challenges of his times. He also made one crucial error from Day One.

Op-Ed: French Philosophy Professor Emmanuel Jaffelin tells us why we shouldn’t be “Harvardizing” the world’s universities, and reminds us that knowledge is not about securing a return on student debt.

A visit to Salt Lake City, Utah, finds some surprises about the Mormon faith, and the faithful, who are watching for the first time as one of their own has become nominee of a major party to bid for the presidency.

Lucas Santos was an illegal immigrant when he arrived with his family 13 years ago. His father eventually got a green card, and Lucas has landed in Congress with a prestigious internship where he works on immigration issues and dreams of a political caree

The wife of Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney is a mix of trailblazer and tradition, Le Monde’s correspondent explains to French readers. Mother of five children, Ann Romney tries to humanize her husband and put to rest any final doubts about th

Ronan’s resume is about a mile long already – and he’s only 24. He has a Yale law degree, an undergrad diploma earned at 15, and a day job as an adviser to Hillary Clinton. He’s also the only biological child of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, though he hasn&

Official numbers are next to impossible to come by, but the ongoing debt crisis in Greece seems to be sparking a new wave of New York-bound emigration. For some, like “Mike” from Astoria, Queens, this is actually their second stint in th

Did the monumental scam artist make a suicide pact with himself way back in the 1990s? Has Madoff discovered that true happiness is a warm cell? A Swiss psychologist pieces answers the question: is Madoff a sociopath?

Analysis: Laws like Florida’s “Stand Your Ground,” which authorizes armed self-defense, are multiplying in the United States under the influence of a lobby that drafts bills and offers them ready-made to local governments. A French visit to the “Gunshine

In the small town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, site of the infamous civil rights murders depicted in the movie “Mississippi Burning”, the first African-American mayor looks to the future to heal wounds of the past.

Op-Ed: By now, we can call the US intervention in Afghanistan a failure. It’s what happens when you go to into a drawn-out conflict without a plan B…and other lessons to be learned before the next war.

Americans are having a field day with Andrew Schiff, a Wall Street banker who complained in an interview with Bloomberg about his “paltry” $350,000-a-year salary. Says Schiff: “The New York that I wanted to have is still just beyond my reach.”

That uniquely New World attitude that anyone can achieve success appears to be fading into history. Seen from Peoria to Paris, the so-called “Great Gatsby Curve” paints a picture of the United States with growing inequalities and stagnat