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5 stories on France. For each one: what the left says, what the right says, and what both agree on. RSS feed

• Paris Unrest: 'Largely Peaceful' Protests or Molotov Riots?

  Nov 1, 2026

  Left: Hundreds of thousands of people, many of them students and young people, are peacefully demonstrating over genuine grievances: unaffordable living costs, crumbling school infrastructure, and overcrowded classrooms.

  Right: What began as student protests has been hijacked by organized far-left agitation, including from France Insoumise leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is using the unrest to boost his presidential ambitions.

• France Erupts: Student Protests or Left-Wing Riots?

  Oct 26, 2026

  Left: The movement began with legitimate grievances: students protesting teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, and decaying school buildings with rats and falling debris in underfunded suburban areas.

  Right: What began as student grievances has been hijacked by masked, hooded agitators who torched cars, looted shops, and attacked media offices like CNews and Europe 1, discrediting the original cause.

• France's Student Protests: Legitimate Grievance or Far-Left Riot?

  Oct 2, 2026

  Left: Students are responding to genuine, long-documented failures in French public education, including overcrowded classrooms of up to 35 pupils, teacher shortages, and buildings with inadequate heating, cooling, and sanitation.

  Right: What began as a protest over school conditions has devolved into coordinated violence, including arson, Molotov cocktails, and assaults that have injured over 300 police officers and 65 school staff, suggesting organized far-left and outside agitation rather than spontaneous student activism.

• Are 'Far-Left Infiltrators' or Genuine Grievances Driving Europe's Riots?

  Oct 27, 2026

  Left: A generation facing crumbling schools, unaffordable housing, job precarity and pensions they'll likely never collect is reacting to a genuinely broken social contract, not manipulation from outside agitators.

  Right: Officials across multiple countries — France, Belgium, Italy — have independently pointed to organized far-left and Antifa-linked networks moving between cities to escalate otherwise peaceful student and cost-of-living protests into riots.

• Pope Condemns Assisted Dying as 'False Compassion' in France

  Sep 28, 2026

  Left: The trip highlights the Catholic Church's continued cultural pull in France, drawing 800,000 people to Mass despite decades of secularization and declining church attendance.

  Right: Human dignity is inherent and cannot be measured, debated, or eliminated by illness, suffering, or legislation, according to Church teaching reaffirmed throughout the visit.