“The Young Man” is more than the story of an affair. It’s an intense re-examination of the past.

The protests over the police killing of Nahel Merzouk have reignited the debate over the country’s claims of color blindness.

Aviation is a major polluter and has missed most targets for reducing emissions. But this year, thanks to years of pressure, companies and policymakers began to change that.

This tournament has been chaotic, breathtaking, tragic, and wonderful. How do we make sense of it?

The African nation’s Cinderella run through the tournament was entirely unexpected outside of Marrakech. Now, fans of underdogs are united under its banner.

The Twitter hubbub over uncredited scholars is a sideshow. The real people who’ve suffered from the way we’ve covered Haiti are Haitians.

Audrey Diwan’s film recreates a woman’s isolating, wrenching efforts to get an abortion in France in the 1960s.

It wasn’t even close, thank goodness. But legislative elections loom in June, and the nation remains deeply fractured.

American government succeeded, Tocqueville thought, because it didn’t empower the people too much.

The lone pre–second round debate touched on Russia, the EU, crime—and, inevitably, Islam. But Le Pen didn’t convince swing voters—probably.

The far-right candidate facing French President Emmanuel Macron in a runoff election favors picturesque localism: no wind turbines or immigrants.

The candidate of the left said vote against Le Pen. But he didn’t say vote for Macron. And his voters will probably decide this.

Emmanuel Macron leads the presidential race—by about as much as “Remain” led in the U.K. and Hillary Clinton led in the United States in 2016.

Viktor Orbán, Marine Le Pen, and Donald Trump thrive on creating chaos and blaming their opponents. The only solution is for liberals to show voters what they stand for.

The French showed this week why the U.S. Congress needs to launch a commission on clergy sexual abuse of minors.

The comparisons to his predecessor are overblown, but the president’s U.N. speech highlighted some glaring gaps in his foreign policy.

It’s not just the Australian submarine deal, says Gérard Araud. President Biden, he says, doesn’t seem to care about Europe at all.

The French president is facing a far right that has gained the upper hand in the country’s insidious culture wars. And he has only himself to blame.

The show set in a French talent agency is the antidote to superficial satires on Hollywood.

The former colonial power isn’t just a victim of Russian disinformation. It’s waging a similar propaganda campaign in Mali and other countries in the Sahel region.