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January 18, 2023
France’s Pension Reform Battle Will Be Decided in the Streets
Macron is trying to push through cuts to the retirement system, looking to generate savings on the backs of the working class.
Cole Stangler
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November 15, 2022
The Life and Afterlife of the Paris Commune
It was one of the most radical political experiments in European history. It was also one of Europe’s most tragically short-lived.
David A. Bell
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October 19, 2022
Amid Inflation and Corporate Windfalls, French Workers Are Rising Up
The increasing cost of living and the government’s heavy-handed response to a strike at oil refineries is pushing people into the streets, and the discontent isn’t going away.
Cole Stangler
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September 29, 2022
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally Has What It’s Always Wanted: Institutional Power
The National Rally may fashion itself a movement, but it prefers that the people remain passive.
Harrison Stetler
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June 30, 2022
France Rediscovers Parliamentary Politics
Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition would rather look for allies on the far right than on the left.
Harrison Stetler
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June 29, 2022
Toe to Toe With “Moby-Dick”
Pierre Senges’s avant-garde retelling of Melville’s great work asks us what the limits of the novel are.
Ryan Ruby
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June 13, 2022
What the French Really Owe Haiti
Compensation for a history suffused with violence that left physical wounds and psychological trauma.
Marlene L. Daut
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June 9, 2022
Can a United Left Win in Macron’s France?
France’s left unity coalition is poised to send a crop of activists into the National Assembly, though critics say it could be even more representative of its diverse base.
Cole Stangler
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April 19, 2022
The Rank Opportunism of Emmanuel Macron
How the French president stumbled into a legitimacy crisis.
Harrison Stetler
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April 15, 2022
“He Just Shat All over Us”: Why Macron’s “Republican Front” Is Fraying
Macron aims to rally voters against far-right Marine Le Pen, but alienated parts of the coalition he needs to win may sit on the sidelines.
Cole Stangler