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Dmitri Drobnitsky16.07.2026

The order was reportedly issued following yet another fatal encounter involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). During an immigration operation in the town of Biddeford, Maine, ICE officers opened fire while attempting to stop a vehicle driven by 26-year-old Colombian national Sebastián Durán Guerrero. Guerrero was killed The shooting sparked protests, with local residents […]

Yuri Chekalin15.07.2026

Why do people obey political authority? Few questions have occupied political thought more persistently. Power and Legitimacy From Plato and Aristotle to Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Max Weber, political philosophers have sought to explain why governments are recognized as legitimate and why individuals accept obligations imposed by political institutions. The question is […]

Yaroslav Listov14.07.2026

80 Years Ago the United States Radioactively Contaminated Vast Areas of the Pacific Ocean. After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States did not stop. The next step was to test nuclear weapons at sea. Vice Admiral William H.P.Blandy selected Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands as the site. In July 1946, […]

Robert Reich13.07.2026

As we lose jobs and the middle class contracts, where will consumer demand come from? Through the end of June, about $3.2 trillion in AI deals have occurred this year. That’s a 45 percent jump from a year earlier, according to Dealogic, a data provider. It’s the most spent on deal-making over a half-year period […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky12.07.2026

Advocates of a hardline policy toward Iran have now identified what they see as a new Iranian threat—this time in Cuba. Speaking at a conference organized by United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), the organization’s chairman and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush claimed that Iranian combat drones are now present on the island. Bush said in […]

Yuri Chekalin12.07.2026

The concepts employed throughout this article are not presented as fixed or universally accepted definitions. Concepts and Terminology: A Framework for Analysis Terms such as myth, mass, power, charisma, and political religion have acquired different meanings across history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and philosophy. Rather than attempting to resolve these longstanding conceptual debates, this article […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky11.07.2026

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was established in 2025 under the Trump administration, with Elon Musk appointed to lead the initiative. The DOGE initiative In practice, however, the agency once led by Elon Musk had effectively become defunct a year earlier, having fallen well short of its stated objectives. After journalists and lawmakers repeatedly […]

Yuri Chekalin11.07.2026

“The good historian resembles the ogre of the fairy tale. Wherever he smells human flesh, he knows there is his prey.” — Marc Bloch. Author’s Note This article examines political myth as an object of historical inquiry rather than as an instrument of political advocacy. Its purpose is neither to defend nor to condemn particular […]

Vladimir Kantor10.07.2026

The 20th century is commonly associated with the emergence of a new historical and political actor: the masses. It became the age of mass politics, mass mobilization, and totalitarian regimes that relied on broad popular support while simultaneously giving rise to repression, war, and human suffering on an unprecedented scale. Naturally, the phenomenon of the […]

Alexander Palladin09.07.2026

A hundred years ago Armand Hammer, an American businessman, won the trust of Soviet leaders and, for decades, exploited it to his own advantage, skillfully cultivating the image of a loyal and selfless friend of our country. Lots of my fellow citizens, for instance, tend to believe that in 1980 Hammer financed the construction of […]

ICE Officers Temporarily Barred from Conducting Traffic Stops

Political Myths: Authority and Legitimacy (Part.3)

Paradise Blown Apart

Who’s Gonna Buy All the AI Stuff?

A Scaled-Down Second Cuban Missile Crisis

Political Myths: Authority and Legitimacy (Part.2)

DOGE Officially Ceased to Exist on July 4

Political Myths: Authority and Legitimacy

Leaders and the Masses

The Wheeler-Dealer: Kremlin Leaders’ Favorite Armand Hammer

ICE Officers Temporarily Barred from Conducting Traffic Stops

Political Myths: Authority and Legitimacy (Part.3)

Paradise Blown Apart

Who’s Gonna Buy All the AI Stuff?