Film

Gothic Spires from Outer Space

Siddhant Adlakha / Truthdig Mar 6, 2025 Bruno Dumont’s sci-fi satire “The Empire” unfurls an alien opera above coastal France. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Europe

Jean-Marie Le Pen: The Life and Death of a Nazi

John Mullen / Green Left Jan 13, 2025 Since the 1950s, he was France's foremost fascist and reveled in the controversy he could instigate merely by expressing his unapologetic opinion. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Truthdiggers

Truthdiggers of the Week: Charlie Hebdo

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 7, 2025 Critical journalists view the slaughter of their colleagues in Paris from a deeply personal perspective. "Does my work threaten my life?" we ask ourselves. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

TD Original

The Downfall of the Abbé Pierre

Christopher Lord / Truthdig Sep 21, 2024 A sex scandal involving its most admired celebrity is shaking France to its core. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

TD Column

Macron’s True Color Is Blue

Julian Mathews / Truthdig Sep 11, 2024 By appointing Michel Barnier as prime minister, the French president ignored voters and chose working with the right over reconciliation with the left. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Europe

The Gold in AI Mass Surveillance Goes to …

Anne Toomey McKenna / The Conversation Jul 17, 2024 A legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare of this summer's Paris Olympics. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

TD Column

Rock Paper Scissors in France

Christopher Lord / Truthdig Jul 12, 2024 The far right is down but not out in Paris. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

TD Column

Can the New French Left Govern?

Julian Mathews / Truthdig Jul 12, 2024 After upsetting expectations, the four-party Nouveau Front Populaire needs to get serious. It can start by picking a leader. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Europe

Leftists Poised to Win French Elections as Voters Reject Fascists

CD Staff / Common Dreams Jul 8, 2024 Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the leftist La France Insoumise party, called the election results an "immense relief for a majority of people in our country." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Europe

The Reconstructed Left Taking On Le Pen

Sam Pizzigati / Inequality.org Jun 21, 2024 In France, the far right and a new left coalition battle for control of the country in next month’s elections. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

TD Original

Those EU Farmer Protests Aren’t What They Seem

Christopher Lord / Truthdig Feb 29, 2024 Behind the noble image of the “angry farmer” is an agribusiness alliance working to sabotage Europe’s ambitious green agenda. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Africa

An Ambiguous Coup in Gabon

Obiora Ikoku / African Arguments Sep 1, 2023 The coup in Gabon, the latest of a series in West Africa, has less to do with democracy and more with the end of French neocolonialism. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )