Thoughts on political actions, and lack of them

Marine Le Pen inherited her neo-Nazi political party, the National Rally, from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was a little less neo...

Trump’s Most Transactional & Transgressive Appointment Yet The Kushner family saga has reached its logical next act: Charles Kushner,...

I like The Economist — at least when I’m flying on B.A., which is where I read it. And then yesterday I heard the beginning and the end...

Le Pen's Fake Moderation Didn't Work This Time Le Monde ran an article— picked up and translated into English by The Guardian— yesterday:...

French Election Results Were Very Bad For Democracy The far right went crazy yesterday— but we’ll leave MAGA out of this discussion....

Also: Are The Lib-Dems A Credible Alternative To Corporate New Labour? As we saw over the weekend, the French neo-fascist party, National...

Establishment Centrist Parties Did Badly In 1969 I went overseas and spent a lot of time traveling. I bought a VW camper and drove down...

You'd Be Better Off Living ANYWHERE Other Than Oklahoma The thing that got me about France incorporating women’s rights to an abortion...

After a week-long series of votes to override an intense campaign by Let’s Make Russia Great Again Russo-Republicans— primarily Rand Paul...

Also Something Of An Ambitious Political Chameleon Attal, a son of privilege, has long appeared to be on a rocket ride to the top of...

So now what happens in January when MAGA Mike’s short-term continuing resolution runs out and his shattered majority has to pass a...

France has the biggest Muslim population of any Western nation— something like 5-6 million out of a total population of 67.7 million,...

Police Brutality Always Backfires As the French police amp up their violence and brutality against peaceful demonstrators, the protests...

French Workers Are Fighting Back-- Will Americans? American conservatives are eager to raise the retirement age. The alternative is...

Earlier we looked at the bizarre question of conservatives going up against the popular will to push unpopular solutions that are favored...

Last night, Le Monde reported that over a million people took to the streets to protest the kind of pension “reform” that the Republicans...

Macron had a solid victory in the presidential runoff election on April 24 against fascist Marine Le Pen. He beat her 18,768,639 (58.55%)...

By now, everyone knows that yesterday the mainstream conservative incumbent, Emmanuel Macron beat the Putin-financed fascist candidate,...

The first round in France's presidential election is April 10 and if no one wins a majority-- a certainty since there are nearly 40...