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Six nights of violence in France following the killing of a 17-year-old by a policeman last Tuesday. President Emmanuel Macron will meet with leaders of both houses of parliament as he tries to bring an end to the violence. There is a feeling among people I spoke to that the police are stopping people in France because of who they are rather than what they're doing. And maybe you want a meaty meal, but maybe you want it to be cruelty-free? How about making burgers from extinct animals?

The killing of a teenager in a Paris suburb has ignited national unrest. We ask what is driving the disquiet, and what it means for a president squeezed on both political sides. In high-inflation times, rising wages worry economists—“wage-price spirals” are a textbook bogeyman. But perhaps the risk is overblown (10:34). And the researchers making burgers from extinct animals (18:22).

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