Whether you call them rotaries, traffic circles or roundabouts, they offer a safer alternative to the four-way stop. But the modern roundabout has been decades in the making.
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The IOC needs to look beyond gender parity and work with international federations to address athletes’ conditions of participation in sports to achieve true gender equality.
There is hope for a return to a more traditional and enjoyable Olympic Games with the upcoming 2024 Paris Games.
One year away from the 2024 Olympic Games, the grim reality of climate change is impossible to deny. How do we make the mega-event sustainable and avoid the pitfalls of greenwashing?
I’ve interviewed disaffected people across French suburbs. Their anger has been mounting for years.
A new three-part series brings together a wealth of material and voices to present new films, photographs, stories and theories about the brilliant artist.
Ever since it launched, the streaming platform has made its name by spearheading ever more daring innovations. But could this model be hurtling toward uniform plots and worldviews?
Although Paris’s capitalisation overtook London’s in late 2022, the City of London is still Europe’s leading financial centre. Understanding why will require that we look beyond stock indices.
As the new series of Emily in Paris drops, an expert in cultural depictions of the city asks – where are all the Parisians?
It’s riddled with cliches and a dislike of a certain type of “Americaness”.
France’s ‘renewed partnership’ with Algeria may be less about exploring a difficult and painful past and more about pressing political concerns.
Cultural omnivores are economically and culturally privileged people who can enjoy both “highbrow” and “lowbrow” cultural products, like good and bad coffee, simultaneously.
It’s one of the most common expressions used in French but also one of the most controversial. A linguist explains why “pas de souci” is no mere English import.
The first restaurants in Paris were based on the medicinal powers of soup, but these establishments soon transformed into the temples to gastronomy we know today.
As a concert pianist, Scott Davie has been searching for the spirit of Chopin since his teens. It’s taken him to Paris and Majorca and channeled tantalising notes through time.
An Italian media scholar raised on American TV assesses Netflix’s ambitious strategy to create original productions in Italy, Japan, Brazil and beyond – and distribute them globally.
The need for social distancing sparked a cycling boom, cutting air pollution and boosting city dwellers’ mental and physical health. But when the pandemic ends, will it be back to life as usual?
Stephen of Tournai wanted Denmark to pay damages for Viking raids on France three centuries before.
In 19th-century France, even photographs of hospitals and bridges could become propaganda.
As the Black Lives Matter movement has , statues of figures linked to slavery have been removed. Such actions are just symbolic, however. What is at stake is the systemic transformation of the present.
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