From the LATimes: The Koch brothers’ attempted takeover of the libertarian Cato Institute has come to an end, at least for now. Charles and David Koch — the Kansas billionaires at the center of a network of conservative financial and intellectual influence sometimes ...read more

By Mark Ames: On Saturday, the tiny EU nation Slovakia held parliamentary elections, and the results surprised the “experts”: The center-left party Smer, derisively described as “populist” in the American media, won in a record landslide, the first time a single party will ...read more