DROITS DE L’HOMME? I like how Nicolas Sarkozy talks about climate change, too, Ezra. And I know he’s cute. But let’s not get all starry-eyed. Over in France, Sarko has enraged the left by announcing that 25,000 immigrants will be deported this year, many to Africa. Employing his typical, borderline-nativist rhetoric, Sarkozy said France needs immigrants who are “selected, not edured.”

–Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.