Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
What does the social media crystal ball say about the biggest global event of the day, the French presidential campaign? On social media, Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon seemed to be the favorites, running neck in neck on Twitter the day before…
On the Super Tuesday (March 1, 2016) Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz, Bernard Sanders et al. will do the most important battle of the primary season. Two heavyweight communicators, one American (Alex Heffner) and the other French (Joseph Daniel), will discuss…
Paris, France was hit by one of the most horrendous terrorist incidents of the post-2001 era. An ISIS inspired killing squad raked with machine gun fire and maimed and killed with suicide vest explosions several restaurants and a concert venue on November…
View image | gettyimages.com At approximately 17:15, January 9, the police assaulted the Dammartin-en-Goële printing shop where the two brothers were holed up. They were both killed and their hostage freed according to AP. At the same time, the police assaulted a…
The two brothers allegedly responsible for the killing of 12 people in a deadly attack against the editorial team of the satyric magazine Charlie Hebdo are holed down and surrounded in a printing plant in Dammartin en Goelle, 25 miles north east…
In the context of the Snowden and Prism scandal, Google released a transparency report, which discloses the number of judicial requests for disclosing information about Google service users by country over a period of three years. Data has been released in the…
NBC report on what the French think about the IMF head arrest. What is missing from this report is the question: why didn’t the scandal occur earlier and why not in France? The fact that the scandal took place in the US…
My cell phone suddenly rang during a meeting with a grad student the other day. The device is set to a traditional, 1940s plain ring. It is the loudest I could find. I am either getting old and hard of hearing or…
Map of Omaha Beach German fortifications (blue dropets) laid over the American operational map for June 6, 1944 (misaligned due to Google Maps limitations). Clicking the button “Google Earth” will show the 3d Model of the German fortifications and will correctly align…