french election
One of the headlines from the presidential election in France is that the far-right has come out of the cold and gone mainstream.
Macron and Le Pen faced off five years ago, but opinion polls show the leader of the National Rally is much closer this time to a potential win.
He needs a majority in Parliament, but his party is barely a year old and doesn’t have a single seat in the Assembly.
Le Pen was defeated in a landslide this Sunday, but her nativist party probably isn't going anywhere.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Populism is no longer condemned to the extremist edge.
Macron's former mentor Jacques Attali says his country just showed us that not all democracies will follow this pattern.
He’s never run for office before, he’s married to his high school teacher and until two years ago, no one had ever heard of him.
Macron's genius was launching a non-populist movement against left and right.
The West isn't in the clear -- elections aren’t everything.
