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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· 3 months agoDrawing on what he says are previously undisclosed Soviet records, an award-winning historian...
It's a massive election year around the world too — and democracy may be losing
Salon via Yahoo News· 2 months agoRishi Sunak; Joe Biden Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images Nearly half the world’s population...
South Africa’s Belated Reckoning Over the War in Ukraine
Politico via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoSIMON’S TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA — While South Africa’s government has claimed to be neutral in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, pro-Ukrainian locals here argue that this is a lie. They point out that ...
Russia sets presidential election for March 2024
United Press International via Yahoo News· 7 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· 2 months 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· 3 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· 7 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 ...
US divisions over Putin’s Russia present grave global implications
CNN via Yahoo News· 4 months agoUS politics is now split by a fault line over Russia that could have far graver global implications...