Magazine cover of the week

 

The cover line translates strictly as, “But what is happening to him?” and perhaps more loosely as, “So what’s his problem?” The editorial, by Franz-Olivier Giesbert, laments the French president’s “rain of projects, min-reforms, mini-measures…a sort of legislative bulimia.” The headline on the edit is “The Spanking Syndrome,” because apparently Sarko’s latest brainstorm is to ban spanking.