Far right seizes the moment as riots rock France
As fires gut historic town halls and over two thousand are arrested, Marine Le Pen and the far right exploit a crumbling centrist state.
By Elena Rossi ·
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Fires in Lyon show Macron's republic is running on empty
As protesters clash with police across France over living costs, mass arrests and tear gas cannot hide the decay of a centrist government trapped by its own debt.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
France cages protesting students as classrooms rot under Macron
Teenagers demanding basic school resources face mass arrests and tear gas across France, exposing an out-of-touch regime that sacrifices its youth for austerity.
By Maya Ellison ·
Sébastien Lecornu targets the left as French schools crumble
As Sébastien Lecornu deploys riot police against students protesting decaying classrooms, the state criminalizes youth to hide its own failure to fund public education.
By Maya Ellison ·
Netanyahu brings election theater to the UN General Assembly
Facing a tight vote at home, the Israeli prime minister turned the UN rostrum into a stump speech, attacking allies and embracing conflict.
By Tom Beckwith ·
a16z rewrites venture capital with compute-driven monopolies
Ron and David George argue that AI is transforming venture capital by shifting trillions in labor spending toward massive compute investments and extreme power law dynamics.
By Klaus Berger ·
OECD scores plummet as the West treats education as a service
The latest PISA 2025 results are not a mere dip in test scores; they are a ledger of intellectual abdication.
By Emilio Quesada ·
The US defends a distortion by rejecting the Equal Earth map
A map is a tool, and like any tool, it is only as useful as its application. For five centuries, the world has used a maritime navigation chart to conduct its diplomacy.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Macron and Burnham use the Bayeux Tapestry to mask a border pact
When the powerful want to signal a "new era," they don't look to the people; they look to the archives.
By Maya Ellison ·
Dyson CameraJet is corporate over-engineering, not public health care
The first thing you learn when you live near a farm, or when you spend time in a congregation that is actually working—not just attending—is that nothing comes free.
By Ruth Behrens ·
Messi's departure from Argentina signals an unavoidable transition
Lionel Messi’s announcement—that he is retiring from international football—is not merely a sports story; it is a statement about limits.
By Grant Colby ·
President Macron and Qiddiya: A €6 billion spectacle in Paris
When I read the reporting on this new venture—the promise of three theme parks near Cergy-Pontoise—I didn’t see a global destination; I saw another instance of profound procedural overreach.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Aude chaos proves infrastructure neglect from Pomas to Bordeaux
The initial reports from Aude paint a picture of pure chaos: 41 injured, 300 homes damaged, and an estimated 2,800 households without electricity across ten communes.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Liège, Belgium and Slovakia fires expose WWII bombs
The news cycle loves to point fingers at "climate change," treating it like some cosmic villain responsible for every scorched hectare.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
Western condemnation fails as Sa'ar rejects Miliband over E1 plans
The West, for all its talk of universal values, remains a collection of interests waiting for the right moment to diverge.
By Emilio Quesada ·
Treasury yields hit multi-decade highs amid surging national debt
The language they use—"yield curve," "liquidity support buybacks"—is designed to make you feel small, like an amateur who wandered onto a trading floor.
By Alma Cordero ·