With elections due next year, Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government risks being outflanked by Roberto Vannacci’s National Future party, which is pushing hard for ‘remigration’ and ‘traditional family values’. →

French students are challenging a rigid institutional order through festive subversion. The media and government frame the protests as deeply violent, but the real story is the unprecedented crackdown. →

The Democratic Party has won back the House of Representatives and the Senate in the midterm elections, with sweeping victories across the US. Notably, leftwing Democrat Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan (…) →

It may seem surprising that secondary school students from the banlieues and rural areas should join forces after 15 years of relentless talk about France’s ‘territorial divide’, which has entrenched the idea of a gulf between the France of the big cities and ‘the periphery’, and between urban and rural youth. According to this view, which is widespread in the media but contested by researchers, there are two distinct types of working-class youth with different problems, values and prospects. Young people in the banlieues may face racism, discrimination and urban segregation, but their (…) →