The U.S. economy added a measly 115,000 jobs in April. Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng got Washington’s attention, but human rights remains a touchy subject between the U.S. and China. France and Europe brace for the change a French presidential election will bring. Income inequality got a shoutout from one of Mitt Romney’s former colleagues. And Facebook prepares to IPO.

The Daily Beast/Newsweek’s David Frum joins Matt Miller and Robert Scheer on this week’s “Left, Right & Center.”

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