Tag: France
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...
From Nazis to Netflix, the controversies and contradictions of Cannes
David Scott Diffrient, Colorado State University
On May 17, the 70th edition of the Festival de Cannes kicked off with the opening-night screening...
Macron and LePen are battling for France’s heart and soul in...
Richard Fogarty, University at Albany, State University of New York
On April 24, the day after her second-place finish in the first round...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
