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February 3, 2014
John McWhorter
Let's Stop Pretending That French Is an Important Language
February 1, 2014
Andrew Hussey
Meet the Anti-Semitic French Comedian Who Invented the Quenelle
February 1, 2014
Simon Heffer
What Really Happened at the Battle of Waterloo
January 3, 2014
Alice Robb
Meet the French Comedian Behind Soccer's Antisemitism Controversy
December 3, 2013
Marc Tracy
France Has Charged Bob Dylan With Breaking the Country's Most Ridiculous Law
September 10, 2013
Julia Ioffe
The Syria Solution: Obama Got Played by Putin and Assad
September 4, 2013
Gregoire Fleurot
Surrender Monkeys Become Interventionist Gorillas!
Paris has become Europe's leading hawk. It actually isn't an anomaly
August 7, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Don't Be Seduced By This French Author's Argument Against Sex
July 15, 2013
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Tour de France: Up the Mountain That Once Killed a Man
July 12, 2013
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Biking as Bloodsport
When the Tour de France turns violent
July 6, 2013
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
English Swearing at Its Flippin' Finest
The blunt profanities of Mark Cavendish
June 28, 2013
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Why Can't Frenchmen Win the Tour de France?
April 5, 2013
Benjamin F. Carlson
China's France Fetish
The new rich want wine, cheese, and savoir vivre. Underemployed Frenchmen are glad to deliver it.
March 13, 2013
Jed Perl
When the Surrealists Met the Nazis
Picasso, Paris, and modern art in Vichy France
February 28, 2013
Hannah Armstrong
Winning the War, Losing the Peace in Mali
After the fighting, Mali's ethnic tensions continue to fester
February 25, 2013
Laura Marsh
Inside the Ring
Is the circus art?
February 21, 2013
Adam Thirlwell
How Baudelaire Revolutionized Modern Literature
Humiliation as a Way of Life
January 31, 2013
Lydia DePillis
How Do You Stop Racism on Twitter?
Not by shaming or prosecuting users, for starters
January 31, 2013
Anna Badkhen
Mali Burns, Malians Shrug
The fighting hits Timbuktu, but soccer's still on television.
January 19, 2013
Jed Perl
The MOMA's "Inventing Abstraction" is Exhilirating, Challenging, and Completely Wrong

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