U.S. President Donald Trump offered support to French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Thursday after a Paris court earlier this week convicted her and two dozen figures from her National Rally (RN) party of embezzling European Union funds. A judge handed Le Pen an immediate five-year ban on running for office that will bar her from the 2027 presidential election unless she can … Read more
A French court on Monday found Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzling European Union funds in a verdict that could end the far-right leader’s plans to run for the French presidency in the country’s next elections. While the court was yet to announce her sentence, the Paris prosecutor had previously requested that Le Pen56, face … Read more
W.H. Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B. Yeats, concluded that poetry “makes nothing happen.” While generally true, the precept doesn’t hold in the case of playwright Athol Fugard, whose body of work helped transform the history of his nation. Born in Middelburg, South Africa, in 1932 to an … Read more
