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Lorie Shaull / CC BY-SA 2.0 7:30 a.m. PDT Sunday: France’s presidential election is underway, and, at each turn, it gets stranger and stranger. Polls opened across France on Sunday morning as, for the first time in the European country’s history, two candidates from outside the traditional party structure are up for election. And they’re not any two candidates, either: They are Marine Le Pen, a far-right xenophobe who originally campaigned as head of the National Front party founded by her father... Читать дальше...
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment The hackers who leaked Emmanuel Macron’s emails are late to the party. The biggest de facto backer of his opponent Marine Le Pen’s hateful, far right nationalism is Islamic State.
By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org Shame on every one of the 217 Republicans who voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, and substitute basically nothing.
Just Another Cell (Chris / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) In 2013, Gary D. Howard was arrested with 18 grams of marijuana and in 2014, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison without the possibility of parole. This week, the Louisiana Supreme Court upheld that punishment. Bernette Johnson, the state’s chief justice, blasted the opinion in a dissent on Wednesday, calling the decision to uphold the verdict “outrageous” and “ridiculous.” The 2013 offence occurred when police searched the home of Howard’s girlfriend... Читать дальше...