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Is Donald Trump America’s Le Pen?

Riaz Tejani (Illinois): “A Logic of Camps”: French Antiracism as Competitive Nationalism. Armin Steinbach (Oxford): Burqas and Bans: The Wearing of Religious Symbols Under the European Convention of Human Rights. The Other France: Are the suburbs of Paris incubators of terrorism? Marie Brenner on the troubling question in the French Jewish community: Is it time to leave? Arthur Goldhammer on the French disconnection: Can the ideal of a secular Republic accommodate the new cultural pluralism? Phoebe Maltz Bovy on the risks of siding with French secularism: The National Front’s defense of Charlie Hebdo should make the mag’s progressive American defenders wary. In France, a party’s name change tracks a drift to the Right in Europe. Peter Wieben goes inside the migrant “jungle” in northern France — a dispatch from the front lines of Europe's immigration crisis.

Is Donald Trump America’s Le Pen? Cas Mudde on the Trump phenomenon and the European populist radical right.

Erik Loomis reviews Mexicans in the Making of America by Neil Foley. The US now has 2nd-largest Spanish-speaking population. Andrew Breiner and Esther Yu-Hsi-Lee on the GOP candidates’ extreme anti-immigrant positions, in one chart. Chris Lehmann on Donald Trump and the long tradition of American populism. Tez Clark on graphs that show the veto power of white men in politics. The Little Fuhrer: A day in the life of the new generation of nationalists. David W. Smith, the leader of the Orange County, Texas-based Golden Triangle Militia, wants people to know he is no white supremacist or conspiracy theorist. The Vegas plot: In the world of right-wing extremism, how do you tell who is dangerous? Sacha Feinman on the vast, hidden community of racial hatred in America.