List of France articles
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Hands hold the Orb, a biometric imaging device for Worldcoin, which aims to create a World ID digital passport with a tradeable cryptocurrency, in Berlin on Aug. 1. Annegret Hilse/Reuters Sam Altman Has a Plan to Tame the AI He Unleashed
Worldcoin trades cryptocurrency for eyeball scans, creating a global ID database and scaring the willies out of privacy experts.
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A collage photo illustration shows examples of soft power around the world including a smoking NAFO shiba inu in a beret and fatigues, a dancing woman from the Bollywood movie "Monsoon Wedding," Olympic sprinter Jesse Owens, K-pop band BTS, and a panda. Soft Power Is Making a Hard Return
Leaders are reaching for fellas and films as much as bullets and blockades.
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A protester sits in front of riot police during a demonstration at the Place de la Concorde in Paris on June 30. The Pernicious Delusion of Colorblind Policymaking
From the United States to France, rich democracies are ignoring racial realities—and hurting social policy.
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Smoke rises from a bonfire near graffiti reading "The police kills" during clashes with police in the streets of Lyon, France. Why France Is Burning
A shocking video sparked massive riots and has reignited the debate on police violence in the banlieues.
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French President Emmanuel Macron, looking down at the podium, delivers a speech at the Élysée Palace in Paris. ‘Strategic Autonomy’ Is a French Pipe Dream
Emmanuel Macron is pushing a European policy that flatters France and annoys everyone else.
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U.S. President Joe Biden walks with France's President Emmanuel Macron and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva during their visit to a mangrove conservation forest on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua, on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Nov. 16, 2022. An Era of Debt Crisis Catastrophe Is Dawning
Unless the world cooperates to do something about it.
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French President Emmanuel Macron visits the Mont-de-Marsan Air Base in southwestern France to deliver his New Year address to the French Army. Can France’s Big Bucks Fill the Defense Gaps?
Paris is ramping up military spending. But critics worry it’s going to the wrong places.
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Sunbathers under umbrellas line the beach with sailboats dotting the sea behind them in Cannes, France, on Sept. 1, 1948. How the French Riviera Got Its Glitz
Long before the Cannes Film Festival, a new book shows, the Côte d’Azur built a brand on flaunting affluence.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron speak in the garden of the governor of Guangdong's residence in Guangzhou, China, on April 7. How Macron Is Blocking EU Strategy on Russia and China
As a strategic consensus emerges in Europe, France is in the way.
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French President Emmanuel Macron attends a meeting with the leaders of various French unions and employers’ associations after he signed into law a pension reform that raises the retirement age from 62 to 64, at the Élysée Palace in Paris on April 18. How Macron Can Save His Presidency
The French president is bound to provoke outrage if he continues to govern like a king.
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French police and members of the black bloc clash during a protest against pension reform in Toulouse, France. Liberty, Equality, Police Brutality
French cops have gotten more heavy-handed than anywhere else in Europe.
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French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to students at Sun Yat-sen University in China. Macron Said Out Loud What Europeans Really Think About China
Leaders in Washington need to face an uncomfortable truth: A self-reliant EU is a better partner than a dependent one.
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French President Emmanuel Macron walks with Chinese President Xi Jinping outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Macron’s China Trip Is a Fool’s Errand
Feeling the heat at home, the French president heads to China to ink some lucrative deals and pay lip service to Xi’s pledges of peace.
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French President Emmanuel Macron reacts as he delivers a speech. To Save His Pension Reform Bill, Macron Has Lost France
And he is getting himself in trouble abroad, too.
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People protest French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform plan. France’s Labor Pains
Despite more than a month of paralyzing strikes, France’s unions are bleeding members, influence, and prestige.
