A French Rebirth?

France Fourth time’s a charm for Marine Le Pen. Marine Le Pen has a new lease on life. Last Tuesday, a court cleared a path for her to contest France’s presidential election next year. And she took it with celerity. “There is no longer any scenario in which I could not run,” Le Pen announced on TV that evening. “I am a candidate.” This will be Le Pen’s fourth bid for the job, and her chances appear better than ever. Multiple polls conducted over the past several days show her comfortably defeating all comers in both phases of France’s two-round election system. Of course, much could change in the nine months remaining until the vote. The field is immensely crowded; by one count, there are over 30 declared or potential candidates who could vie with Le Pen (not all with equal seriousness, of