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Manipulation in the Time of Crisis: The Sexual…
In the midst of the European refugee crisis, informal refugee camps should be shut down due to the laxness and…
Reality TV Politics
Now this is something unusual in the French TV landscape. Beside their polemical investigation of French Islam in…
The Reluctant Welcome of the Calais Migrants and What It…
When it comes to the dispatching of the Calais migrants throughout France, there seems to be two types of…
Hostage to Theocracy
Zineb El Rhazoui is a Muslim Moroccan-born French journalist and sociologist of religion. As a columnist for…
So French: Angry Syndicates and Endless Norms
In an attempt to boost French tourism, Valérie Pécresse, the president of the Ile-de-France regional council, is…
End of Reign
With a mere 4% favourablity rating and the media disaster caused by the publication of the book Un président ne…
Rising Extremism and Threats to Electoral Systems in the…
In the United States and France, rising populism and extreme right tendencies are challenging two traditionally…
What is France Coming To?
In just a couple of months, several civil servants, be it policemen or teachers, have been violently assaulted in…
French 2017 Elections: Terrorism, Prisons and Justice
At last, a consensus! Apparently, the republican candidates for the French primaries agree on one thing: the vital…
J. F. Poisson: The Outsider Republican
The first TV debate of the 2017 French primaries took place this Wednesday, and it did two things: it maintained…
2016 French Education Reform: An Ideological Rewriting…
*French-to-English translations by the author*
The start of the school year would not be a French one…