Your Saturday Cartoon by Noah I remember way back during January of 2018 when The Diaper Don told us that our immigrants should be coming from "nice countries." That thought of course distilled the Republican Party's conservative philosophy down to its fetid essence. Heeerre's Donnie! "Why can’t we allow people to come in from nice countries, I’m trying to be nice. Nice countries, you know like Denmark, Switzerland? Do we have any people coming in from Denmark? How about Swit

"We have no rules of the road."

I was only 8 when the Hungarians rose up against the Soviet occupiers in 1956. I recall it as a valiant two weeks, ultimately crushed by...

It's Fine For Kash Patel But What Will Scott Bessent Tell His Grandkids? To Trump, a negotiation with someone in a relatively weak...

I like The Economist — at least when I’m flying on B.A., which is where I read it. And then yesterday I heard the beginning and the end...

Populist Geert Wilders — Dutch Version Of Trumpian Xenophobe — Spins A Yarn, Rockets Up The Polls... A Mad-Man’s Gamble? by Toon...

Especially In The EU And US Neo-Nazi parties have been doing very well across Europe, most recently in state elections in Germany ...

The Kremlin's Trojan Horse in NATO There are two full-on Putin allies heading governments of countries in the EU and NATO, Hungary and...

Also: Are The Lib-Dems A Credible Alternative To Corporate New Labour? As we saw over the weekend, the French neo-fascist party, National...

Establishment Centrist Parties Did Badly In 1969 I went overseas and spent a lot of time traveling. I bought a VW camper and drove down...

On Thursday we met Tatjana Ždanoka, the Latvian equivalent of Marjorie Traitor Greene, a traitor to her country, like Greene. Even...

There Isn't Much Of A Political Left Anywhere When we’re talking about the political left we’re referring to a broad ideological stance...

We keep hearing about Russian men fleeing the country overland and by air to Turkey, Armenia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan (98,000), Finland and...

People forget that at the end of the Roman Republic, the Republic did end.