Tag: France
Long before Armstrong and Aldrin, artists were stoking dreams of space...
Anne Collins Goodyear, Bowdoin College
In the midst of the space race, Hereward Lester Cooke, the former co-director of the NASA Art Program, observed, “Space...
In Notre Dame fire, echoes of the 1837 blaze that destroyed...
Paul W. Werth, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
In a city graced with remarkable architecture, the cathedral of Notre Dame may be Paris’ most striking...
France’s ‘everyday sexism’ starts at school
Bérengère Stassin, Université de Lorraine
In France, the #MeToo movement has a livelier name: #BalanceTonPorc, or “Name and Shame Your Pig.” It inspired hundreds of...
With the right guiding principles, carbon taxes can work
Gilbert E. Metcalf, Tufts University
Like most economists, I favor taxing carbon dioxide to cut carbon pollution.
A carbon tax makes fossil fuels like oil and...
Dunkirk survivors’ terror didn’t end when they were rescued
John Broich, Case Western Reserve University
In late May 1940, Vic Viner was one of the 338,000 Allied troops on the beaches around the French...
Macron and Trudeau shouldn’t be so proud of appointing women to...
Malliga Och, Idaho State University
Appointing a gender-parity Cabinet seems to be the thing to do if you are a rising, progressive and male political...
Macron and Trudeau shouldn’t be so proud of appointing women to...
Malliga Och, Idaho State University
Appointing a gender-parity Cabinet seems to be the thing to do if you are a rising, progressive and male political...
President Macron marches to parliamentary majority in France
Mabel Berezin, Cornell University
“Bien joué” – or “well played” – was sprawled across a picture of Emmanuel Macron on the cover of the newspaper...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
