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Noncitizen Voting in U.S. Elections March 19, 2025

Disputes about how America votes have raged since the 2020 pandemic-driven expansion of vote-by-mail.While mail balloting has continued to stir controversy, now noncitizen voting has taken center stage. Debate surrounding the issue will likely soon c...

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Elections

Romania Disqualifies Another Candidate in Election March 18, 2025

Russia

To Reform NATO, Reset With Romania March 18, 2025

Romania’s shocking election cancellation is an opportunity to push for greater European strategic autonomy. ...

Romania

The EU Killed Romania’s Democracy March 15, 2025

Romania has fallen to the status of a 'hybrid regime,' the only one in the European Union, and we have EU politicians and corrupt bureaucrats to thank for it.On March 11th, the Romanian Constitutional Court banned the most popular candidate from runn...

Romania

European Union

Politics

Canada’s New PM Is a Technocratic Banker Who’s Never Been Elected March 14, 2025

Americas

Romania Targets ‘Illegal Online Content’ Ahead of Re-Run Elections March 14, 2025

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Portugal Sets Elections for May 18 After Government Collapse March 14, 2025

Russia

Romania’s Electoral Coup Is a Blow to Europe March 13, 2025

This past weekend, Romania’s electoral commission disqualified the frontrunner nationalist candidate, Calin Georgescu, from participating in May’s upcoming presidential contest, the latest development in an electoral saga started with the controversi...

German Left Is Holding Friedrich Merz to Ransom March 13, 2025

“The Left is gone,” declared Friedrich Merz just before the German election. Confident of victory for his centre-right CDU/CSU, the likely next chancellor predicted: “There will be no Left-wing majority and no more Left-wing politics in Germany.” ...

What Next for Reform UK? March 13, 2025

Well, isn’t it a glorious mess? Reform UK, that band of Brexit zealots and populist muckrakers, has picked the perfect moment to start clawing its own eyes out. Just as the spotlight begged for their next act, Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe – two men w...

Center-Right Party Wins Most Votes in Greenland’s Election March 12, 2025

Americas

Portugal Set for Snap Election as Government March 12, 2025

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Greenland’s Pro-Independence Parties Surge March 12, 2025

The results show that Greenland is only divided about what to do when and not if independence from Denmark is reached. ...

Greenland

Greenland Votes in Legislative Elections, Eyes Independence March 11, 2025

Americas

Mark Carney Is Wrong About Everything March 11, 2025

Canadians have a new prime minister. After a leadership election in the ruling Liberal Party, it’s out with the woke globalist, Justin Trudeau, and in with the woke globalist, Mark Carney. ...

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A Coup Against Romanian Democracy March 10, 2025

So this is what passes for democracy in Europe nowadays. The frontrunner in Romania’s presidential elections has been banned from participating. On Sunday, Romania’s election bureau decreed that favourite Calin Georgescu should be excluded from the b...

Romania

The Transatlantic Alliance’s Uncertain Future March 10, 2025

In December, when the German government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost the confidence of the Bundestag, it sparked a general election. It also provoked the fear of a deepening international crisis on top of the domestic one. ...

NATO

foreign policy

Germany

Die Linke Is Now an Anti-Working-Class Party March 08, 2025

The Left’s surprise success in the German election was entirely dependent on the young, woke and well-off....

Immigration Policy Under Trump 2.0 March 07, 2025

President-elect Trump has promised a radical overhaul of U.S. immigration policy to reverse the Biden administration’s open-borders agenda and replace it with sweeping restrictionist alternatives in his second term. To that end, his campaign and alli...

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Cuba and the Vatican Deal in the Face of U.S. Elections March 07, 2025

During the last week of Biden’s presidency, the Vatican negotiated the removal of Cuba from the terrorism sponsors list in yet another example of its long-standing relationship with the Cuban dictatorship. It’s time for the Church to stop whitewashin...

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religious freedom

Cartels Loom Over Mexico’s New System of Electing Judges March 06, 2025

Americas

Can France and the UK Replace the U.S. Nuclear Umbrella? March 06, 2025

On February 20, 2025, shortly before Germany’s snap elections, Friedrich Merz, chairman of the conservative Christian Democratic Union and Germany’s next chancellor, made a prominent declaration about the future of European nuclear deterrence: “We ne...

France

United Kingdom

Senegal’s Democratic Spotlight March 05, 2025

French politician Jacques Chirac once said that democracy is a luxury Africa can ill afford. But last year, the people of Senegal made clear in a free and fair presidential election that democracy can prevail in Africa. ...

Senegal

Europe Wants to be the World’s Speech Police March 03, 2025

The greatest threat to Europe isn’t China, Russia, or some other external actor; it’s “the retreat of Europe from… fundamental values” like the freedom of speech.That was Vice President Vance’s warning to European leaders at the 2025 Munich Security ...

J.D. Vance

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European Union

Forgotten Wars: Conflict Intensifies in Burkina Faso March 03, 2025

Over the past decade, Burkina Faso has been experiencing a profound political and humanitarian crisis, driven by armed insurrections and a resurgence of terrorism. Since 2015, the country has witnessed an escalation of violence perpetrated by jihadis...