Rachel Donadio
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Max Rossi / Reuters Macron and Salvini: Two Leaders, Two Competing Visions for Europe
The French and Italian politicians see different futures for the continent. Both face tests in this week’s European Parliament elections.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters How I. M. Pei Shaped a Change-Resistant Paris
Parisians hated Pei’s pyramid when it first opened. It is now as synonymous with the Louvre as the Mona Lisa.
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Thomas Samson / AFP / Getty A Motto for a World-Weary Paris
The Notre-Dame fire brought Parisians together, for just a moment, in a way that even the November 13 terrorist attacks could not.
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Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt / AFP / Getty France’s Paradoxes, Embodied in a Cathedral
France is a secular republic, dedicated to the principle of laïcité, or the absence of religion in public life. But it has as its national symbol the Notre-Dame cathedral.
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Hubert Hitier / AFP / Getty Witnessing the Fall of Notre-Dame
It survived eight centuries of plague, war, revolution, and the Nazis. How could it be burning?
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FREEDOMPIC / Crush Rush / Shutterstock / The ... Berlusconi Was Trump Before Trump
The Berlusconi era—full of flashy parties, legal misdeeds, and too much news for the Italian public to keep track of—foreshadowed America’s current predicament.
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Tony Gentile / Reuters Pope Benedict Says Blame the ’60s for Priests’ Abuse
Benedict, the pope emeritus, weighed in on the Catholic Church’s abuse crisis. What was once opaque becomes clearer, and even stranger.
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Alessandro Garofalo / Reuters A New European Political Bloc Wants to Dismantle Europe
The politicians behind a continent-wide far-right alliance share concerns about migration—and little else.
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Francois Mori / AP / The Atlantic Why France’s Former Prime Minister Wants to Be a Mayor in Spain
Manuel Valls is running for office in Barcelona, where his trumpeting of European values has gained little traction in the face of everyday politics.
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Georges Bendrihem / AFP Agnès Varda’s Films Made the Invisible Visible
In Faces Places and The Gleaners and I, the director trained her camera on people and issues not frequently seen on-screen.
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Philippe Wojazer / Reuters A Strongman Falls, and a Post-Colonial Era Ends
Hundreds of thousands of Algerians have been protesting “to prove to the world and to the regime that they could move without destroying the country,” says the Algerian writer Kamel Daoud.
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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?
