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The human "degrees of separation" theory contends any two people link through a chain of social connections, and most of us are no more than six individual links apart.

Twenty-first-century hybrid warfare is a vile and corrupted version of this theory of human relationship networks.

The sneaky war-waging state uses one or more degrees of ...Read more

Big news from Argentina is the electoral victory of the Advancing Liberty party of President Javier Milei.

Milei initially won the presidency in 2023 brandishing a chainsaw as a message of how he was going to cut the runaway government that has been destroying the lives of Argentinians.

Big government power has been a tradition in Argentina....Read more

"But people will die!" That's what some shout whenever anyone proposes cutting government spending. An audience member at a town hall shouted it when Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said Medicaid shouldn't cover illegal immigrants. Ernst responded with an obvious truth: "We all are going to die." The audience groaned and booed. The Nation magazine ...Read more

When President Barack Obama ordered military action against Muammar Qaddafi's Libya in 2011, both Republicans and Democrats in Congress challenged his constitutional authority to do so.

On June 3 of that year, the House of Representatives voted on two resolutions challenging Obama's unilateral action. One was sponsored by Rep. Dennis Kucinich...Read more

How does a 33-year-old lifelong do-nothing -- a person who has never held a real job, never suffered a true challenge, been handed everything on a silver platter -- turn into a mayoral frontrunner in New York City? How does a self-described socialist who despises capitalism become the leading candidate for the mayoralty of the world's ...Read more

The silliest Trump scandal imaginable is the forthcoming White House ballroom, funded entirely by private donations. If everything is a scandal, is nothing a scandal? Anything that feeds President Donald Trump's ego must be denounced no matter how much it serves a larger public purpose.

Washington Post art critic Philip Kennicott uncorked a ...Read more