A staggering first-round victory for Marine Le Pen
Emmanuel Macron’s political gamble has backfired.
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How the far right seduced France’s Gen Z
Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella have the following of political rock stars.
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A reckoning for the Parisian elite
The French capital, once a seat of global power, has entered a new era of political and cultural upheaval.
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The roar from below
How Emmanuel Macron turned France to the hard right.
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Emmanuel Macron is gambling with France’s future – and Europe’s
The far right has his government under siege.
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Éric Hazan, rebel publisher
The leading French thinker has died aged 87. His cosmopolitan ease and intellectual industry is an example to the left.
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Why David Lammy is courting France
Labour is building deeper European relations in advance of a potential Trump victory this November.
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The end of progressive Macronism
Macron is beginning to resemble the right-wing authoritarians who oppose him.
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Searching for Frantz Fanon
Was the elusive revolutionary thinker naive, or ahead of his time?
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A country for young men
Gabriel Attal is France’s latest and youngest prime minister.
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Emmanuel Macron does not understand France
A leading French thinker on the forces of a new movement that is neither left nor right.
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Americans don’t belong in Europe
Henry James showed how the New World is incapable of understanding the Old World.
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The self-delusions of Nicolas Sarkozy
The former president still casts himself as the prophet of French conservatism. Historians will remember him as an enabler of…
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Can Marine Le Pen win without the elites?
The French far-right politician has cast herself as the candidate of the people. That might be a mistake.
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The Islamist roots of French disorder
The country’s riots cannot be explained away by socio-economic woes alone.
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Pedro Sánchez’s election battle will pre-empt Europe’s future
As Spain heads to the polls, the country’s fractured politics offer a glimpse of what's to come.
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The striking works of the Prix Pictet shortlist
From Siân Davey to Gauri Gill, the photographers competing for the prestigious award are deeply impressive.
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France’s forces of law and disorder
French police have declared themselves “at war” with rioters. How did the state’s protectors become a threat to its future?
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The rotten heart of the French republic
The crisis in France only benefits the hard right, who will exploit it to reshape French politics.
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Annie Ernaux’s acts of revenge
The Nobel laureate on abortion, the “shame” of her upbringing and forging a new working-class literature.
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