Cole Stangler is a French-American journalist based in Marseille, France covering politics and culture and a contributor to outlets like The Nation, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, TIME and The Guardian among others. He is the author of Le Miroir américain (Les Arènes, 2025), Paris Is Not Dead (The New Press, Saqi Books, 2023) and La solidarité et ses limites : la CFDT et les travailleurs immigrés dans les années 68 (Arbre bleu, 2022). He is also a professor of communications at the American College of the Mediterranean in Aix-en-Provence, where he teaches classes on the media and French politics.

He is frequently interviewed about French and US politics on media outlets like the BBC, Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera, Democracy Now, Radio France, France 5 and TV5 Monde.

Cole began his career as a staff writer at In These Times magazine from 2013 to 2014, covering Congress and national politics from Washington DC. He then became a labor and workplace reporter at International Business Times in New York before relocating to France in 2016. Cole also worked at France 24 in Paris, serving as a business editor on the English channel from 2019 to 2022.

Cole is a graduate of Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and has a masters’ degree in contemporary social history from the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne.

He is represented by Sandra Pareja at Massie, McQuilkin & Altman Literary Agents. You can reach him at cstang57@gmail.com.