The crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane near Aktau on December 25, 2024 was a serious test for Russian-Azerbaijani relations. One of the consequences of this event was the saturation of the ...

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In Wednesday’s Daily Take I mentioned Russell Kirk and the origins of today’s hard right GOP. A few people replied with, “Who’s that?” and similar questions; others were incredulous that Republicans ...

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Bauhaus architects like Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe fled Nazi Germany, but not all of them went to the US.

We can try to avoid commercial spyware, but how can we avoid a totalitarian government that spies on everyone?