In the race for the European Parliament, politics are becoming transnational—and threatening the union from within.

France’s gilets jaunes protests are the latest Western uprising against rule by technocratic insiders.

If citizens are encouraged to help shape climate justice, they will be far more likely to join the project.

Yes, French politics and society are in turmoil. But there's a simpler lesson from the cathedral's burning.

Civilization creates. Civilization endures destruction. Civilization builds again.

President Xi Jinping's visit to Europe has been a triumphant tour, resulting in major bilateral deals.

Édouard Louis confronts the French elite’s contempt for the poor.

It's coming from three very different sources. And it's extremely hard to combat online.

In Europe, governments are increasingly prosecuting people who help migrants.

Denis Diderot loved the things that made others uneasy: ambiguity, change, doubt, and the pleasures of the flesh.

The protests have combined legitimate economic grievances with the worst of far-right politics. And the French left has been happy to go along.

Macron's concessions to the Yellow Vest protesters won't fix a problem that's fundamentally about the European Union.

The protests have included both right-leaning rural white voters and the diverse urban districts. That almost never happens.

Trump says the violence is proof that people oppose environmental protection. He couldn't be more wrong.

Has French security law turned holding Islamist ideas into proof of a crime?

Whether in France or in the United States, school reform alone can't fix racism and poverty. But Emanuel Macron seems to think otherwise.

Focusing on Muslim antipathy towards Jews lets the rest of the country off the hook.

If soccer is a window into human nature, why is it so hard to apply its insights to everyday life?

In the ongoing headscarf fracas, many hardliners are in fact leftists.

The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.