by Megan McArdle | Oct 10, 2017 | Middle East
As airstrikes rained down on Aleppo while the Syrian government wrested the city from rebel forces, Bana al-Abed and her mother, Fatemah, were tweeting daily about life under siege. “Good morning from Aleppo,” Bana said in halting English in one of the videos posted...
by Megan McArdle | Jul 15, 2017 | Opinion
Emmanuel Macron has completed a political revolution. The man swept out of nowhere, with no party behind him, and in a few short months, managed to secure the French presidency, then lead his new movement to a substantial legislative majority. Now he’s proposing to...
by Megan McArdle | Jun 26, 2017 | Opinion
We aren’t conclusively sure how the fire spread in London’s Grenfell Tower so quickly, consuming the entire 24-story building. What we do know is that there are ways to help control the spread of fire in apartment buildings, such as sprinkler systems. This has the...
by Megan McArdle | May 10, 2017 | Opinion
When I arrived in France a week ago, many Americans were asking whether this election was going to be the French Brexit, and Marine Le Pen the French Trump. Given the strength of Emmanuel Macron’s lead in the polls, I thought this was the wrong question. France, in...
