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Jean-Luc Mélenchon; Marine Le Pen; Emmanuel Macron (AP/Jean-Francois Badias/Kamil Zihnioglu/Christophe Ena)

Surprise! Round one of the French presidential election went pretty much as expected

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Emmanuel Macron defeats Le Pon in exciting standoff (AP Photo/John Locher)

Surprise! Round one of the French presidential election went pretty much as expected

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(AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump isn’t a European-style populist: The president-elect’s victory represents true American exceptionalism

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French police secure the area as the investigation continues in Nice, France, July 15, 2016. (Reuters/Eric Gaillard)

It’s time to admit it: We’re all afraid of terrorism — and that’s the entire point of it

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