Why France is in big economic trouble

September 10, 2025

Why France is in big economic trouble

France, like the United States, faces a mounting debt crisis. Public debt outstanding is now around 114% of France’s GDP. In the United States the ratio is about 100%. Curiously, sovereign borrowing costs for France are substantially lower than interest payments for the U.S. France is a member of the European Union, the EU. The rules of the EU state that […]

Jon Ossoff’s political games insult Georgia’s veterans

I served in the Army National Guard for four decades, enlisting as a private and retiring as a two-star major general. During my service, I deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Africa, and our southern border. Honor. Integrity. Service. Those aren’t just words — they’re a way of life. When you wear the uniform of the […]

We met Iryna Zarutska’s murder with terrifying indifference

Like everyone else, my imagination filled in the missing gap of the original video of Iryna Zarutska’s murder with images from an action film: the killer’s knife, flashing beside his shrouded face, plunges in a frenzied swing. EDITORIAL: HOW TRUMP CAN RESPOND TO CHARLOTTE STABBING Next, the nearby passengers leap backward into the windows, shouting […]

Democrats embrace socialism’s failures as the party’s future

Democrats are hurdling toward becoming the party of socialism, embracing the failed ideology right after voters made it clear in the 2024 elections that the party is too radical. Gallup found that capitalism has its lowest approval rating (54%) in the United States since 2010, the first time the polling outlet asked this question. That is being […]

Why Israel’s strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar matters

An Israeli strike has taken out top Hamas leaders in Qatar. The strike is among the most significant operations in the two-year-long war that followed the Oct. 7 massacre. And its aftereffects will reverberate throughout the region and beyond. On Sept. 9, Israeli air strikes hit a compound in Doha where top Hamas apparatchiks were gathering. The […]

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Democrats’ undemocratic Harris mistake

PITTSBURGH — “There should have been a primary.” Jo Jo Burgess was a delegate at the Democratic National Committee and a full-throated supporter of former Vice President Kamala Harris in the general election. He’s the mayor of Washington, Pennsylvania, a Democrat-leaning town in the middle of very Republican Washington County, in southwestern Pennsylvania. When asked […]

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