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Marine Le Pen Eyes Gains In Depressed French North

DENAIN, France – The northern French town of Denain has been a left-wing bastion for generations. Not any more. The feeling that mainstream politicians have failed runs high amid the 20,000 inhabitants of a place where the poverty rate, as

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Slate: Marine Le Pen’s Far Right Seize the Moment in France

Jonathan Laurence, and associate professor of political science at Boston College and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, writes in Slate that Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s National Front political party, is “ready to seize the moment” after Wednesday’s Islamist massacre at the offices of satire magazine Charlie Hebdo.