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5-21-17

The French Election Shows the Risk of Abolishing the Electoral College

by Robert Hardaway

Americans have been spoiled over the past two plus centuries with the stability of our republican form of form of government. Let’s not risk it.

Source: NYT

5-1-17

Echoes of Colonial Conflict in Algeria Reverberate in French Politics

A midcentury war began a crisis of identity and integration that is playing out in France's battle for presidency.

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The French Election Shows the Risk of Abolishing the Electoral College

by Robert Hardaway

Echoes of Colonial Conflict in Algeria Reverberate in French Politics