Un automobiliste sur trois téléphone au volant

Not good. I hope technology can step in to solve this.

Hollande au plus bas dans les sondages, Valls plébiscité par l'opinion | Dernière minute | Nice-Matin

What a mess.

On Bridges in Paris, Clanking With Love - NYTimes.com

I'm in the eyesore camp.

Plus d'un Français sur deux est favorable à l'euro

I wonder how a poll would come out in the US about the dollar?

France Warns Alstom on Possible G.E. Alliance - NYTimes.com - NYTimes.com

This is getting even more interesting.

Thomas Piketty, the Economist Behind ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ Is the Latest Overnight Intellectual Sensation - NYTimes.com

I feel like I need to understand a lot better.

ESC of NC Public & Media Information: Rate News Releases

France now at 10.4% unemployment. North Carolina at 6.3%.

Monnet's Brandy and Europe's Fate | Brookings Institution

It would be nice to see a French version looking the other way. WASHINGTON's Whiskey and America's Fate?

Finkielkraut : « Ouvrons le 21e siècle avec intelligence »

I forget why this fellow is controversial.

James Baldwin, Born 90 Years Ago, Is Fading in Classrooms - NYTimes.com

A lot of France implicated here.

The Piketty Panic - NYTimes.com

A THOREAU of the bean counters? See here too.

How a 700-page economics book surged to No. 1 on Amazon - CBS News

It seems impossible to predict such things.

Al Jazeera

What the French love about America: Jazz

Don't be fooled by her fluent French. China Moses is very much an American jazz singer in Paris. Tonight, Sheila MacVicar profiles Moses, exploring the history of African American jazz expatriates in France and the new Americans following in their footsteps.

GE in Talks to Buy France's Alstom-Bloomberg - NYTimes.com

Another tie to bind us.

Recovery in Euro Zone Gathers Pace - NYTimes.com

France is not out of these woods yet.

Un père tue son fils de 23 ans qui jouait trop sur l'ordinateur

Has this happened in the US?

Un père tue son fils de 23 ans qui jouait trop sur l'ordinateur

Has this happened in the US?

Le "bien vivre" des Français vu par les Américains | Planet

A etudier.

French city conducts mass DNA test in hunt for school rapist | Al Jazeera America

Would this ever happen in the US?

French city conducts mass DNA test in hunt for school rapist | Al Jazeera America

Would this ever happen in the US?

In France, a Move to Limit Off-the-Clock Work Emails - NYTimes.com

Yes, it is a different place.

Vive le "Made in France" ou comment les Français "se réapproprient leur industrie"

Compared with the US?

Vive le "Made in France" ou comment les Français "se réapproprient leur industrie"

Compared with the US?

‘Oppressed Majority’ Provokes Debate on Internet - NYTimes.com

Fascinating.

In Europe, Echoes of America as Concussions Spur Debate - NYTimes.com

I'd like to understand better the differences between the US and France on this.

France's Far-Right to Ban Faith-Based School Lunch Options - NYTimes.com

This could lead to far more than unhappiness.

Sarkozy et Chirac, muses de George W. Bush - Libération

Will we see SARKOZY taking brush to pallette?

À quoi ressemble le propriétaire français de demain ?

Compared with the US?

Vers un modèle de crowdfunding à la française

Compared with the US?

French Leader Approves a New Cabinet - NYTimes.com

So much to discuss about all of this and how it compares with the Cabinet in the US.

Moderation Pays Off for a Far-Right Party in France - NYTimes.com

A suivre.

Unemployment Malaise Lingers in Euro Zone - NYTimes.com

France at 10.4, US at 6.7.

PISA scores

France beats the US.

PORTRAIT. Mais qui es-tu Manuel Valls? | Dernière minute | Nice-Matin

Hard to compare with the US since we really have nothing like a prime minister; she/he has to be pieced together in the US from several roles. In France, that may give us a Spanish-born prime minister, a Spanish-born mayor of Paris, an Italian-born finance minister, and people like Najat (I forget if she was born in Morocco).