Rachel Donadio
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Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters France’s Yellow Vests Are Rebels Without a Cause
French President Emmanuel Macron is trying to figure out what they want. It’s not an easy task.
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Michael Dodge / Getty Civil Courts Step In to Solve What the Catholic Church Won’t
The conviction of a high-ranking cardinal for sexually abusing two boys shows that civil authorities, and not Church officials, will bring abusers to justice.
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Benoit Tessier / Reuters France’s Double Standard for Populist Uprisings
Residents of the city’s poorer, immigrant-heavy suburbs have for years asked the government to take their challenges seriously. They’ve had little success.
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Remo Casilli / Reuters Survivors of Church Abuse Want Zero Tolerance. The Pope Offers Context.
At a Vatican conference on clerical sexual abuse, victims spoke of their lives being ruined. Closing the conference, Francis appeared to equivocate.
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VATICAN MEDIA The Spotlight Effect: This Church Scandal Was Revealed by Outsiders
The Vatican’s conference on child sexual abuse would never be happening, and the dark secret of clerical sexual abuse and cover-up might never have come to light, if not for outsiders to the hierarchy.
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Vatican Media / Reuters The Catholic Church’s Battle Between Rhetoric and Reality
Pope Francis wants “concrete” change over the Church’s child sexual-abuse scandal. It won’t be easy, though.
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Max Rossi / Reuters What to Watch for During the Catholic Church’s Sex-Abuse Meeting
Pope Francis convened 190 bishops and other prelates to discuss the protection of minors in the Church. Are they serious about it?
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Olympia Orlova / Phenomen A Mind-Boggling Soviet Nostalgia Project
A confounding exhibition from the Russian film director Ilya Khrzhanovsky poses as an exploration of artistic control and authoritarianism. But it might just be plain exploitation.
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Le Pictorium / Barcroft Images / Barcroft Media ... The Yellow Vests Are Going to Change France. We Just Don’t Know How.
By inaugurating a national “grand debate,” can Macron harness the concerns of citizens without undermining his government’s own mandate?
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Tolga Akmen / AFP / Getty The World Isn’t Laughing at Just Trump
American allies are laughing at the whole country.
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Philippe Matsas / Flammarion A Novel Made for the “Yellow Vest” Moment
Michel Houellebecq’s latest provocation takes aim at the EU.
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Lukasz Bak Cold War Meditates on Exile, Nationalism, and Love
Pawel Pawlikowski’s latest film masterfully depicts how deep emotional ties blossomed and survived during an era of extreme conflict in Poland.
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Stephane Mahe / Reuters France’s ‘Yellow Vest’ Protesters Aren’t Against Climate Action
Just because they oppose Emmanuel Macron’s proposed fuel-tax hike does not mean that the French activists will oppose any policy designed to fight climate change.
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Gabriel Bouys / Getty A New Answer to the World’s Biggest Literary Mystery
Who is Elena Ferrante? One of our reporters believes that she’s figured it out.
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Stephane Mahe / Reuters France’s Fuel-Tax Protests Expose the Limits of Macron’s Mandate
France’s prime minister announced major concessions on Tuesday, but the “yellow vest” protesters don’t plan to quit anytime soon.
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Jon Han An Open Letter to Elena Ferrante—Whoever You Are
The pseudonymous author has said all along that her identity lies in her writing. I’ve followed the literary clues. Here’s where they’ve led me.
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Fred Lancelot / Reuters What the November 13 Attacks Taught Paris
For years, deadly terrorist strikes in France were widely treated as isolated incidents. That changed forever in 2015.
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Francois Mori / Reuters Trump’s Bromance With Macron Fizzles Spectacularly
A weekend of presidential drama in Paris culminated in the French president’s warning against an emerging global disorder.
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Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters Europeans Are Obsessed With the U.S. Midterms
“Right now we have almost-daily U.S. coverage on Trump and everything that’s connected to him.”
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Cathal McNaughton / Reuters France’s Jews Look to Pittsburgh ‘Across a Narrow Bridge’
“What’s been a reality for us has now become a reality for them,” said one worshipper at the Mouvement Juif Libéral de France in Paris.
