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Dominant party wins most votes in Kazakh parliament election
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoKazakhstan's dominant political party received slightly more than half the vote in the election for the lower house of parliament, according to preliminary results announced Monday, but the ...
New book by eminent historian casts shadow on legacy of Iowa's Henry A. Wallace
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 2 months agoDrawing on what he says are previously undisclosed Soviet records, an award-winning historian...
Russia’s invasion has highlighted Ukraine’s nation-building progress
The New Voice of Ukraine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn recent months, the country’s remarkably resilient response to Russia’s invasion has served to highlight how far Ukraine has come since the chaotic early years of the post-Soviet era. This ...
Not a defeat, but a foreign occupation. How to deprive Russia of its imperial ambitions
The New Voice of Ukraine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGermany, Japan, and Italy gradually turned from authoritarian imperialist countries into democratic ones after the Second World War. In this case, it is important to consider the question of ...
It's a massive election year around the world too — and democracy may be losing
Salon via Yahoo News· 1 month agoRishi Sunak; Joe Biden Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images Nearly half the world’s population...
Russia sets presidential election for March 2024
United Press International via Yahoo News· 6 months agoRussia's Senate voted Thursday to hold the country's next presidential election in March 2024, with incumbent President Vladimir Putin widely expected to...
China woos Central Asia as Ukraine war weakens Russian influence
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 year agoChinese leader Xi Jinping is rolling out the red carpet for Central Asian nations this week as...
Conservatives don’t need to be populist to be popular
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoPBS has posted on YouTube – for free – a documentary on the life of William F Buckley, the thinker...
Give ’em hell, Joe
Daily Montanan via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPresident Harry Truman was way behind in the polls, but he wasn’t giving up. Competitive to the core, he came out of the deeply divided and badly...
The Bogus Historians Who Teach Evangelicals They Live in a Theocracy
Politico via Yahoo News· 6 months agoI had never seen a sanctuary so full on a Tuesday night. The people packed into FloodGate Church in Brighton, Mich., weren’t here for Bill Bolin, the right-wing zealot pastor who’d grown his ...