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The 117th Congress includes four members of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) have been joined in the House this year by Jamaal Bowman (D-New York) and Cori Bush (D-Missouri). Previously only two avowed socialists managed to secure House seats simultaneously. It …

Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, made the claim on Thursday to YouTube channel ‘Izolenta live.’ “It’s a nuclear power that has gone wild with the idea of its own exceptionalism, withdrawing from lots of documents, treaties, international organizations,” she said. Zakharova also believes that Washington …

A “free speech rally” was held at the United Nations Plaza on Saturday. Some demonstrators wore red ‘Make America Great Again’ Trump campaign hats and carried pro-police ‘Thin Blue Line’ flags, as well as US flags. The activists came to decry what they call censorship of conservative views and stories …

Citing the need to “protect the integrity of civil society institutions,” Pompeo announced on Tuesday that think tanks and other organizations that “wish to engage” with the State Department need to “disclose prominently on their websites funding they receive from foreign governments, including state-owned or state-operated subsidiary entities.” While Foggy …

“I want to thank everybody for the tremendous support,” he said in the 18-second video, in which he did not sound congested. “The first lady is doing very well,” he added. “Thank you very much, I appreciate it. I will never forget.” It was Trump’s first tweet since the announcement, some …

Welcome to an Orwellian world where what you think about women, gays or Muslims may now be criminalised under hate crime legislation proposed by the Law Commission. Since its invention in the United States in the 1980s, the number of different hate crimes have been growing and growing. In Britain, …

The 50-state survey on Holocaust knowledge among US Millennial and Gen Z was commissioned by the organization “Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.” The survey consisted of roughly 1,000 nationwide interviews, with participants selected at random, and a further 200 interviews of young adults aged 18 to 39 in …

Selective outrage is not new, either in society or in politics. Some would say that if you want to see a hypocrite, you need only look in the mirror.  However, there will never be any progress if we can’t acknowledge selective outrage when we see it. One commonality that I’ve …

A poll by the radio station of Britain’s newspaper of record, the Times, has thrown up some eye-catching results. The general public were asked for their views on how various political figures would have fared as prime minister. The names spanned different generations and affiliations, but few would have predicted …

As the US continues to lead the world with over 21 percent of total deaths and nearly a quarter of confirmed coronavirus cases (which could be partially attributed to record numbers of tests conducted), a new YouGov poll commissioned by CBS News shows the extremely polarized views of 2,226 surveyed …