The first parade of the Mardi Gras season took place as scheduled in the French Quarter despite security fears following the ...

Joan Walsh, a national affairs correspondent for The Nation, is a coproducer of The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show and the author of What’s the Matter With White People? Finding ...

Heroine or Heretic? - Joan had been sold out to the English. Bishop Pierre Cauchon was determined to prove the inaccuracy of ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right party, has died at 96. Anti-immigration and nationalist ideas that ...

The National Rally, though having expelled him in 2015, hailed Le Pen in a statement, saying he had defended “the idea of French greatness with all his soul and at the risk of his own life.” ...

Hundreds gathered in New Orleans’ French Quarter to celebrate the first parade of Carnival season, just blocks from where 14 ...

Le Pen was convicted numerous times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence. But the nativist ideas that ...