Two Cheers for the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Michael A. Levi The Paris climate summit (also known as COP 21) has adopted a new “Paris Agreement”. The agreement has the potential to mark a laudable and historic shift in how the world negotiates cooperation on climate change. It does not justify the over-the-top claims that some are making – tha…
France’s far-right National Front loses a round, but they will be back
The Economist The FN had looked especially likely to win in either the north, where Ms Le Pen was running, or the south, where her 26-year-old niece Marion Maréchal-Le Pen was the candidate. In the end, neither could summon a majority. But they were defeated only after the left pulled out and urged …