This will probably come as no surprise to regular readers of LI, but a 2018 survey on basic political knowledge revealed that the average American voter is not simply uninformed, but is systematically misinformed. The survey asked 24 questions to a sample of 1,000...
There’s a huge irony that during the 1980s, when Iran talked the most shit, Israel armed them. However, later in the 1990s, when Iran’s rhetoric moderated, Israel pressured America to increase sanctions. How & why did this irony come about? Some say this...