The best explanation of the firing of FBI director James Comey and of the subsequent investigation by special counsel and former FBI director Robert Mueller may just come from a social scientist who died years before President Donald Trump took office.
When James Q. Wilson died in 2012, he was remembered primarily for his influential 1982 Atlantic article with George Kelling, "Broken Windows: The Police And Neighborhood Safety," advocating police tactics focused on maintaining order and reducing fear.
French President Emmanuel Macron cannot avoid the soundbites that end up biting him back. The man, who does not have children himself, continues to question why anyone would have a big family … hinting that only uneducated women would welcome lots of children.
Last month, President Macron spoke at a Gates Foundation event in New York and again concerned himself with African families. Like Bill and Melinda Gates, Macron talks about helping the poor in Africa and educating them, but also insinuates that there should be fewer of them. At the event, he said:
