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Battle of Algiers on Paris Métro Battle of Algiers on Paris Métro

On September 29 French viewers watching the news were offered a bloody Hollywood thriller as an extra. It was the end of a long manhunt.

Jan 28, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Silvio Show The Silvio Show

Orwell had it right. It is not enough to obey Big Brother. You must love him, too.

Jan 28, 1998 / Daniel Singer

LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 8: O. J. Simpson sits in Superior Court in Los Angeles 08 December 1994 during an open court session where Judge Lance Ito denied a media attorney's request to open court transcripts from a 07 December private meeting involving prospective jurors. Final selection of alternate jurors by attorneys in the double murder case is expected later this afternoon. (Photo credit should read POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

America and the Simpson Trial America and the Simpson Trial

This article originally appeared in the March 13, 1995 issue.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Patricia J. Williams

The Politics and the Pity The Politics and the Pity

"We are all German Jews" chanted 50,000 Frenchmen at the gates of the Bastille in 1968; I was recently reminded of this episode, which has become revolutionary lore, when Holocau...

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

France, Racism and the Left France, Racism and the Left

Paris

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

May in December May in December

It's not May in December. The ten days that shook the Chirac government are not a repetition of the great rising of students and workers that precipitated the fall of Gen.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

In the Heart of Le Pen Country In the Heart of Le Pen Country

Marseilles, France

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Hate in a Warm Climate Hate in a Warm Climate

He came, he threatened, but he didn't conquer. The French Riviera will not be the first important region in Europe to be ruled by neofascists.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Ghosts of May The Ghosts of May

Today the cobblestones of Paris's Latin Quarter are covered with asphalt.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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