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commentary The one-person, one-vote principle never accounted for billionaires, let alone trillionaires Published June 20, 2026 6:30AM (EDT) SpaceX founder Elon Musk (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, has made him the world’s first trillionaire. His fortune is now estimated at over $1.3 trillion. This is moreContinue Reading

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Iran’s rival political camps are locking horns over a memorandum of understanding with the US., Tehran, Iran – Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s reservations about his country’s interim peace deal with the United States have emboldened the country’s hardline political grouping, which opposes any concessions with Washington. Iran’s new supremeContinue Reading

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Sweeping U.S. cuts to critical global health programs, including funding and staffing reductions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), have dangerously weakened the world’s ability to respondContinue Reading

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Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon on Saturday morning killed at least 16 people, including two children, according to Lebanese civil defense and media, one day after the U.S. said Israel and Hezbollah had implemented a fresh ceasefire at President Traitor 47’s request, Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading

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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s long-held iron grip on power is being challenged by the war in Ukraine and his government’s authoritarian crackdowns. He finds himself in unfamiliar political territory, publicly questioned by some of the country’s elite and embarrassed by Ukraine’s successful strikes deep into Russian cities. But why isContinue Reading