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Don't Miss This Overlooked Neighborhood in Paris Aug. 31, 2025
By Victor Block The twisted streets are lined by a city planner's nightmare of buildings in a jumble... Read More
When You Travel, Follow Your Passion Jun. 14, 2025
By Victor Block Amanda Syrowatka, a travel expert and director of the Viceroy Bali resort in Indones... Read More
Finding Jim Morrison in Paris Feb. 14, 2021
By Glenda Winders When most people arrive in Paris the first places they want to go are the Eiffel T... Read More
Same Names, Different Towns Dec. 13, 2020
By Victor Block An Eiffel Tower sporting a cowboy hat on top. Two places named Berlin, neither of th... Read More
Plan Ahead Nov. 11, 2020
I was just looking at a photo album with highlights of a memorable trip my wife and I took to Europe... Read More
Paris and New York Are United by Urban Horror Apr. 18, 2019
Many of us watching the inferno at Notre Dame de Paris felt that 9/11 dread. This week, as nearly 18... Read More
Resurrection and Life Apr. 18, 2019
The fact that the fire in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris occurred during Holy Week has led me to thin... Read More
Behind the Curtain Mar. 26, 2019
PARIS — As my Boeing 787-900 touched down at Charles De Gaulle, I quietly thanked American Air... Read More
Destructive Challenge in France Dec. 11, 2018
Paris, home to magnificent art, architecture, music and cuisine, is unquestionably one of the world'... Read More
Paris Burned; What Can We Learn? Dec. 06, 2018
While French President Emmanuel Macron was in Buenos Aires for the G-20 meeting, thousands of French... Read More
Trump Faces a Long Winter With a Blue House Nov. 14, 2018
WASHINGTON — The 2018 midterm elections verdict goes something like this: Paint the People's H... Read More
Trump Insults Our Troops, Again Nov. 14, 2018
Among Donald Trump's favorite stump-speech cliches is insisting on his fervent veneration of our mil... Read More
California Keeps the Faith on Climate, Replacing Washington May. 15, 2018
Many on the right insist that California's tough environmental rules are strangling its businesses. ... Read More
Postcard From Paris: Chez Papa Mar. 13, 2018
PARIS — Stopping in Paris for a few days on my way to the wine regions of France has become a ... Read More
Trump Could Confuse Our Way Back Into Climate Deal Sep. 21, 2017
Will President Trump bring the country back into the Paris climate agreement? The bets are on, and t... Read More
Postcard From France: Paris Aug. 01, 2017
PARIS — The City of Light has everything a wine lover could want and more. Start with the ubiq... Read More
A New Iran Policy Jun. 30, 2017
Five-plus months into the Trump administration, the outlines of a new foreign policy remain unclear.... Read More
France Leads the Anti-Trump 'Resistance' Jun. 15, 2017
When historians recount the downward spiral of Trumpian populism, they may very well start in France... Read More
Trump's Lousy Numbers Spell Doom Jun. 06, 2017
Thing about Donald Trump is he doesn't have the numbers. That became apparent starting on Election D... Read More
Trump Forgets the Past and Blights the Future Jun. 04, 2017
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retr... Read More
