Over the past few weeks, Paris and France at large have been rocked by the gillet jaunes ('yellow vests'), who have taken to the streets. The protestors were ostensibly motivated by French President Emmanuel Macron's fuel tax, that puts disproportionate stress on rural French ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Dec 10, 2018

Professor Elizabeth Midlarsky had her office at New York's Columbia Teachers' College vandalized with Nazi swastikas this week. She also found the Jewish slur "Yid" painted on her office door.  Midlarsky, who has applied her training as a clinical psychologist to the field of ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Dec 6, 2018

The Banter Long Read: CPAC is the yearly gathering of the right wing's loudest and nastiest elements. It's the weekend when the media gets a good look at the true face of conservatism and immediately develops amnesia by Monday morning. But while CPAC is always filled with the ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Dec 20, 2018

Thanks to the French people, the world now has a new, powerful ally in the fight against rising nationalism. With the election of centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron, the far right in France was effectively neutered and sent back to the wilderness of French politics. Yes, Marine ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  May 8, 2017

Update: There have been complaints about the misleading nature of this article because the French is media is not legally allowed to publish anything about the election during the blackout period. However, not every outlet obeys this law and Le Monde choosing to honor the ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  May 6, 2017

After making it through to the second round of the French presidential elections, the far right Marine Le Pen temporarily stepped down as leader of the Front National (National Front).  Jean-François Jalkh took her place and managed to go only a week before reports were made ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 28, 2017

Standing between the complete break down of the international framework that has kept world peace for the past 70 years is one man -- Emmanuel Macron, the independent centrist who made it to the second round of the French presidential election this past weekend. Macron will be ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 24, 2017

In what appears to be a desperate attempt to come across as worldly and educated, Sarah Palin has written a paean to the leader of the French fascist party, Marine Le Pen on right wing hate site Breitbart.com. In a hysterical rant against Sharia law and Islamic plots to destroy ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

Europe, in the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis, is being engulfed in a wave of rising parties advocating far right-wing politics. Familiar tale isn't it? In order to to circumvent Godwin's Law and avoid 'death by cliché' this article will consciously abstain from ...read more

• By Kojo Koram
  Nov 9, 2018

French President Nicolas Sarkozy believes Sunday's presidential election run-off against Francois Hollande will be decided by the tightest margin. The two rivals took part in a heated debate on Wednesday night, watched by an estimated 17.9 million people. Mr Sarkozy said on ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

A majority of supporters of French President Nicolas Sarkozy want his UMP party to strike an alliance with the far-right National Front of Marine Le Pen ahead of parliamentary elections in June, an opinion poll published on Tuesday showed. Sarkozy and other leaders of the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Francois Hollande, a mild-mannered French Socialist who wants to take better care of the jobless and the poor, is heading to a presidential runoff election against tough-on-immigration Nicolas Sarkozy in a vote that could alter Europe's political and economic landscape. ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018