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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is a writer and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His writing has appeared at Forbes, The Atlantic, First Things, Commentary Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Federalist, Quartz, and other places. He lives in Paris with his beloved wife and daughter.

Stop freaking out about the Paris Agreement
The World Climate Change Conference in 2015.
Opinion

Stop freaking out about the Paris Agreement

How Trump has already done irreparable damage to NATO
Trump sits with NATO members and leaders
Opinion

How Trump has already done irreparable damage to NATO

How Trump's budget weaponizes the worst GOP pathologies
President Trump and House Republicans.
Opinion

How Trump's budget weaponizes the worst GOP pathologies

OPEC is dead
Oil barrels at a storage depot in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Opinion

OPEC is dead

The glimmer of hope in Brazil's terrible crisis
"Out Temer."
Analysis

The glimmer of hope in Brazil's terrible crisis

Childproof the presidency
Protected.
Opinion

Childproof the presidency

Please save us, Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan.
Opinion

Please save us, Paul Ryan

Don't believe China's lies
Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Opinion

Don't believe China's lies

America needs to stop treating Putin like a supervillain
Vladimir Putin.
Opinion

America needs to stop treating Putin like a supervillain

This is how the Trump administration ends
Donald Trump.
Opinion

This is how the Trump administration ends

France is losing its most interesting politician
Marion Marechal-Le Pen.
Opinion

France is losing its most interesting politician

France's new president is enticingly young — and incredibly boring
Emmanuel Macron.
Opinion

France's new president is enticingly young — and incredibly boring

How the Senate can clean up the House's health-care mess
Republican senators.
Opinion

How the Senate can clean up the House's health-care mess

The French presidential election proves France is more divided than ever
Emmanuel Macron speaks in front of The Louvre
Opinion

The French presidential election proves France is more divided than ever

Republicans are embarrassingly out of touch with what Americans want from health care
Paul Ryan.
Opinion

Republicans are embarrassingly out of touch with what Americans want from health care

Please stop spouting nonsense theories about the meaning of consciousness
Of course consciousness is not an illusion.
Opinion

Please stop spouting nonsense theories about the meaning of consciousness

France's bonkers election
Posters for French presidential candidates Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
Opinion

France's bonkers election

100 days of Trump: The worst of populism and the worst of the establishment
A president's early days in office are the most consequential.
Opinion

100 days of Trump: The worst of populism and the worst of the establishment

Pope Francis' TED talk was ridiculous. It was also great.
Pope Francis gave TED talk. You read that right.
Opinion

Pope Francis' TED talk was ridiculous. It was also great.

Paul Ryan, wake up!
What happened to you, man?
Opinion

Paul Ryan, wake up!

How Theresa May can win her game of chicken with the EU
Theresa May.
Opinion

How Theresa May can win her game of chicken with the EU

France's new political divide
Election campaign posters
Opinion

France's new political divide

What the Paris shooting could mean for the French presidential election
Masked gunman guard the Champs Elysees Avenue after a gunman opened fire.
Opinion

What the Paris shooting could mean for the French presidential election

Venezuela's socialist hell
And now, protests.
Opinion

Venezuela's socialist hell

What the companies of tomorrow can learn from Amazon today
Jeff Bezos always puts the customer first.
Feature

What the companies of tomorrow can learn from Amazon today

China's president is playing Donald Trump like a fiddle
President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Opinion

China's president is playing Donald Trump like a fiddle

Theresa May just called for a snap election. That's a genius move.
Locking it in.
Opinion

Theresa May just called for a snap election. That's a genius move.

The radical idea that could actually fix America's broken immigration system
Tapping into the "good immigrant" debate.
Opinion

The radical idea that could actually fix America's broken immigration system

Why President Trump really should be the world's policeman
President Trump.
Opinion

Why President Trump really should be the world's policeman

How conservatives can win over Americans on a new health-care bill
A health improvement.
Opinion

How conservatives can win over Americans on a new health-care bill

Utah has an important lesson for progressives on upward mobility
Moving up.
Opinion

Utah has an important lesson for progressives on upward mobility

Why prosecuting the makers of the Planned Parenthood sting videos sets a dangerous precedent
Anti-abortion activist David Daleiden.
Opinion

Why prosecuting the makers of the Planned Parenthood sting videos sets a dangerous precedent

What America can learn from the French health-care system
A hospital in Grenoble, France.
Opinion

What America can learn from the French health-care system

Republicans can still fix health care. Here's how.
Paul Ryan
Opinion

Republicans can still fix health care. Here's how.

Why the GOP's mortifying health-care failure is great for America — and Republicans
Paul Ryan
Opinion

Why the GOP's mortifying health-care failure is great for America — and Republicans

If you didn't like the Christian right, you'll really hate the post-Christian right
Not what progressives would have wanted.
Opinion

If you didn't like the Christian right, you'll really hate the post-Christian right