• Where Did Vladimir Putin’s Dream Of a ‘Russian World’ Come From?

    Russian President Vladimir Putin justified the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by asserting the existence of a singular “Russian world” that needs protection and reunification. He set aside the secular socialist ideological rationales that the Soviet Union used to justify its expansion favoring the Tsarist Russia, rooted in religion and culture. But the history of political More

  • Politico’s J-Mart Laments: ‘If The Election’s About Biden, Trump’s Gonna Win’

    Behold the latest installment of media types fretting over the current course of the presidential election. In this instance, Politico Senior Political Columnist Jonathan Martin lamenting that the current trajectory of the election, a referendum on President Joe Biden, augurs the reelection of former President Donald Trump on this week’s installment of ABC This Week. Watch as J-Mart and host Jon Karl discuss the election’s current trajectory, as aired on ABC This Week on Sunday, April 21st,...

  • Politico’s J-Mart Laments: ‘If The Election’s About Biden, Trump’s Gonna Win’

    Behold the latest installment of media types fretting over the current course of the presidential election. In this instance, Politico Senior Political Columnist Jonathan Martin lamenting that the current trajectory of the election, a referendum on President Joe Biden, augurs the reelection of former President Donald Trump on this week’s installment of ABC This Week. Watch as J-Mart and host Jon Karl discuss the election’s current trajectory, as aired on ABC This Week on Sunday, April 21st,...

  • It’s getting harder to predict the economy’s effect on presidential elections

    It's not the economy, stupid? With political polarization increasingly motivating voters, the economy may not be the predictor it once was.

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    Here’s what you need to know about the world’s largest democratic election kicking off in India

    NEW DELHI (AP) — The world’s largest democratic election could also be one of its most consequential. With a population of over 1.4 billion people and close to 970 million voters, India’s general election pits Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an avowed Hindu nationalist, against a broad alliance of opposition parties that are struggling to play []

  • MRC’s Brent Bozell with Levin on Staggering Facebook Election Interference: ‘It’s Systematic’

    Media Research Center President Brent Bozell called out yet another Big Tech company for interfering in U.S. elections — and he has the receipts to prove it. During a Tuesday interview with nationally syndicated radio host Mark Levin on The Mark Levin Show, Bozell lambasted Facebook following an MRC Special Report detailing how the Meta-owned social media platform interfered in U.S. elections 39 times since 2008. Bozell minced no words in his response to the MRC findings, stating, “We looked...

  • MRC’s Brent Bozell with Levin on Staggering Facebook Election Interference: ‘It’s Systematic’

    Media Research Center President Brent Bozell called out yet another Big Tech company for interfering in U.S. elections — and he has the receipts to prove it. During a Tuesday interview with nationally syndicated radio host Mark Levin on The Mark Levin Show, Bozell lambasted Facebook following an MRC Special Report detailing how the Meta-owned social media platform interfered in U.S. elections 39 times since 2008. Bozell minced no words in his response to the MRC findings, stating, “We looked...

  • India Elections 2024: Millions to cast their vote as world’s largest election kicks off

    Nearly a billion voters will decide if Narendra Modi gets a third term as prime minister

  • Putin likely did not directly order Navalny’s killing, U.S. intelligence agencies conclude

    U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably didn’t directly order the killing of Alexei Navalny at a remote penal colony in February, according to three sources familiar with the matter. But the precise circumstances of the opposition leader’s death at the Arctic prison remain unclear. The assessment does not absolve Putin of ultimate responsibility for Navalny’s fate, only that the Russian president likely did not call for his killing at that time,...

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    Croatia’s parliamentary election follows harsh contest between country’s top two officials

    ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia's upcoming parliamentary election, set for Wednesday, follows a campaign that was marked by heated exchanges between the country’s two top officials, sparking a political crisis in the Balkan country that belongs to both the European Union and NATO. The ballot will pit the ruling conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) led []

  • Utah governor’s TED Talk urges U.S. to resist tribalism as presidential election looms

    Utah Gov. Spencer Cox opened his TED talk, which he delivered from Canada on Wednesday, with a quote from former President Ronald Reagan: “Freedom is a fragile thing, and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction.” Cox said he, like many others, has used that quote many times — but he confessed he didn’t actually believe it. That is, until the “first cracks in my confidence came” when he was Utah’s lieutenant governor, and that was when he showed up to what was supposed to...

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    India’s national election will take place in phases over 44 days. Here’s why it takes so long

    NEW DELHI (AP) — Nearly 970 million people — or over 10% of the global population — are eligible to vote in India's general elections that start Friday and last to June 1. The mammoth exercise is the biggest anywhere in the world and will take 44 days before results are announced on June 4. []