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Marine Le Pen
August 21, 2024
Jo-Ann Mort
The Man Who Saved France From Marine Le Pen
Raphael Glucksmann spoke with The New Republic about how he helped keep the far-right out of power—and his leftist vision for the country’s future.
July 8, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Watch: French Far Right Has Funniest Response Ever to Election Results
Videos have captured far-right voters in France losing their minds over their party’s major loss.
April 25, 2022
Arthur Goldhammer
Macron Beats Le Pen Handily—but the Battle to Define France Is Hardly Over
It wasn’t even close, thank goodness. But legislative elections loom in June, and the nation remains deeply fractured.
April 21, 2022
Arthur Goldhammer
Macron Nails Le Pen on Putin: “You Are a Dependent of Russia”
The lone pre–second round debate touched on Russia, the EU, crime—and, inevitably, Islam. But Le Pen didn’t convince swing voters—probably.
April 11, 2022
Arthur Goldhammer
In French Election, It’s Macron vs. Le Pen in a Showdown for Mélenchon’s Voters
The candidate of the left said vote against Le Pen. But he didn’t say vote for Macron. And his voters will probably decide this.
April 7, 2022
Arthur Goldhammer
Yes, Be Worried: Marine Le Pen Could Finally Come to Power in France
Emmanuel Macron leads the presidential race—by about as much as “Remain” led in the U.K. and Hillary Clinton led in the United States in 2016.
April 4, 2022
Michael Tomasky
From Budapest to Washington, the Illiberals Are Winning
Viktor Orbán, Marine Le Pen, and Donald Trump thrive on creating chaos and blaming their opponents. The only solution is for liberals to show voters what they stand for.
May 24, 2021
Harrison Stetler
The Year That Broke Emmanuel Macron’s Republican Front
The French president is facing a far right that has gained the upper hand in the country’s insidious culture wars. And he has only himself to blame.
April 22, 2019
Magazine
Christopher Caldwell
The People’s Emergency
France’s gilets jaunes protests are the latest Western uprising against rule by technocratic insiders.
January 7, 2019
Alexander Hurst
The Ugly, Illiberal, Anti-Semitic Heart of the Yellow Vest Movement
The protests have combined legitimate economic grievances with the worst of far-right politics. And the French left has been happy to go along.
May 18, 2018
Magazine
Alan Wolfe
A Most Violent Year
The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.
July 19, 2017
Magazine
Yascha Mounk
European Disunion
What the rise of populist movements means for democracy.
January 9, 2015
Elaine Teng
France Should Invite the Far-Right National Front to the 'Charlie Hebdo' Unity Rally
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