Mary Williams, Author at THE COMPROMAT

Politics

Apr 14, 2025Apr 14, 2025

Le Pen is not mightier: What the French far-right leader’s ban from politics means for her movement — and for the Kremlin

A Paris court has found Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally, guilty of misappropriating €4…

Politics

Apr 08, 2025Apr 08, 2025

AIDS, malaria, and child hunger: The consequences of shutting down USAID

The U.S. State Department has formally notified Congress of the closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development…

Mary Williams

Politics

Apr 07, 2025Apr 07, 2025

Neomonarchism, catholicism, majoritarianism: The new right ideologies driving Trumpism

The new ideological direction of America’s ruling party is often referred to, for lack of a better term,…

Mary Williams

Politics

Apr 03, 2025Apr 03, 2025

Ocalan’s razor: Kurdish fighters struggle to make sense of their leader’s call to disarm

After the fall of the Assad regime, the Kurds of northern Syria were bracing for a major war…

Mary Williams

Politics

Apr 02, 2025Apr 02, 2025

Showdown in Istanbul: The arrest of a popular mayor is threatening the Turkish president’s grip on power

Turkish authorities call the mass protests sweeping the country a “movement of violence,” yet they themselves are the…

Mary Williams

Politics

Apr 02, 2025Apr 02, 2025

Beyond SignalGate: Trump’s operation against Iran-backed militants may just be getting started

“Everything is going successfully, even better than we expected,” Donald Trump said on March 27, commenting on the…

Mary Williams

Politics

Apr 01, 2025Apr 01, 2025

Opus DEI: Diversity policies in the U.S. served a purpose, and cancelling them comes with real risks

One of the first actions taken by Donald Trump after his returning to the White House was to…

Mary Williams

Politics

Mar 28, 2025Mar 28, 2025

The dilemmas of post-jihadism: Syria’s interim president may lose support if Islamists deem his policies too soft

Interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has been working to rebuild ties with the West since the mid-2010s, when…

Mary Williams

Politics

Mar 26, 2025Mar 26, 2025

Going to extremes: How centrist parties are chasing votes with anti-migrant rhetoric — and losing support

Migration has become a central issue in coalition talks between Germany’s CDU/CSU and SPD, with both pushing for…

Mary Williams

Politics

Mar 22, 2025Mar 22, 2025

Guns speak louder than words: How deep is Ukraine’s dependence on U.S. military aid?

Donald Trump recently claimed that the temporary suspension of U.S. military aid to Kyiv and the halt in…

Mary Williams