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Today's Newsletter
  1. Webinar: Book Talk on French Politics
  2. Headlines
  3. Protests in the US
  4. In the News: Le retrait américain de l’OMS
  5. Previous Webinars
Book Talk on French Politics
We’re pleased to invite you to join us for a webinar with William Drozdiak to discuss his new book,  The Last President of Europe: Emmanuel Macron’s Race to Revive Europe and Save the World .


with
 Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution & Senior Advisor for Europe and Eurasia at McLarty Associates
The discussion will be led by Ambassador James G. Lowenstein, co-founder of the French-American Foundation

  • Topic: French Politics
  • Date & Time: Thursday, June 18 at 1:00 pm ET
  • RSVP: Click HERE to sign up. Registered guests will receive a link to join in the days leading up to the event.
Headlines
  • "The court said the language of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination, applies to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. (...)"

  • "The Trump administration’s intensifying efforts to block oversight of its coronavirus-related rescue programs is raising new alarms with government watchdogs and lawmakers from both parties amid concerns about the anonymity of companies receiving unprecedented levels of taxpayer funds. (...)"

  • "John Welch, a nurse anesthetist with the nonprofit Partners in Health, was working at a clinic on the rural central plateau of Haiti when, in August of 2014, he got a call asking if he could fly to Liberia. The charity had just agreed to help in the fight against Ebola, which had cropped up in Guinea that winter and was now spreading rapidly across West Africa. (...)"

  • "Editorial. Lors de sa quatrième intervention solennelle depuis le début de la crise sanitaire, dimanche 14 juin, le chef de l’Etat a voulu tracer un « nouveau chemin » consensuel, au moment où la France est traversée par de profondes divisions. (...)"
Protests In The US
# BlackLivesMatter
  • "Atlanta’s top prosecutor said his office will decide this week whether to bring charges against the police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks, a black man whose killing outside a Wendy’s on Friday sparked a fresh wave of protests against police violence in the Southern city and added fuel to nationwide anger over racial injustice. (...)"

  • "Progressive and racial justice groups have seen a cascade of donations since George Floyd’s death and the ensuing protests. Bail funds alone have received $90 million. (...)"

  • "Of the seven factors the researchers identified, perhaps the most insidious is passivism or passive racism, which includes an apathy toward systems of racial advantage or denial that those systems even exist. (...)"

  • "For white people who have just recently recognized their own complicity in America's racist systems and are looking to "fix" that — it's not going to happen overnight. "It's a little bit like saying 'I want to be in shape tomorrow' ..." says author Robin DiAngelo. "This is going to be a process.(...)"
In the News
In the News is a French-American Foundation communications initiative that provides information about current events in France and the United States for our wider community.

Written in French and English from a transatlantic perspective, our publications draw from a range of outlets to analyze topics from election security to global climate change.

Our newest report addresses the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization.

  • "La menace a été mise à exécution et a stupéfait le monde entier. En pleine crise sanitaire liée au Covid-19, le Président Donald Trump a annoncé le 29 mai dernier que les Etats-Unis coupaient toute relation avec l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS) (...)"
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