Today’s Solutions: July 18, 2026

View along a cobblestone street toward the Palais Bourbon, the French National Assembly building with a flag atop and classical columns, flanked by lampposts under a cloudy sky.

France finally votes to strike the Code Noir from its books, its last slavery law

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There is something disquieting about the idea that a law governing slavery could still exist on the books in 2026. Not as an enforced law. Not as a policy. Just sitting there, formally unrepealed, in the archive of French legal history. That was the status Read More...