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Claims that “Swedes are getting dumber” rest on a shaky mix of partial data, contested international rankings, and long‑running research on a so‑called reverse Flynn effect in Scandinavia; serious aca...
A consistent pattern in the research reviewed is that male same-sex (gay) marriages tend to have the lowest divorce rates, while female same-sex (lesbian) marriages show the highest dissolution risk; ...
Different rankings and surveys produce conflicting lists of “most racist” countries because the question depends on definitions, methods and which attribute is measured; some recent global surveys and...
The immediate risk of a direct all‑out war between Russia and the collective of European states remains limited but non‑negligible: most expert forecasting and intelligence products see a higher proba...
Across the last decade the clearest in Europe occurred in and , with major advances also visible in , , and ; these parties have converted protest votes into governing power, coalition leverage, or su...
Democratic socialist policies have been implemented in many countries at different times and with varying aims, most commonly as and as episodic leftist governments or movements elsewhere; lists of co...
Across multiple studies and national statistics, women—whether in opposite-sex marriages or same-sex (lesbian) marriages—are more likely to initiate divorce than men, and lesbian marriages have repeat...
The materials assembled show that socialist policies or movements have achieved stated goals in varied settings: municipal socialism in Milwaukee, social-democratic states in Scandinavia, Bolivia unde...
Democratic socialism and social democracy emerged from 19th-century socialist critiques of industrial capitalism and evolved along divergent paths in response to political realities in Europe: kept th...
A clear, authoritative ranking of which countries have the “” (average penile circumference) is fragile because public lists rely on mixed methods——but multiple compilations identify a handful of cons...
For much of the mid‑20th century members of the Trump family — most notably and later his son — presented a n or “” origin for the family, a portrayal rooted in deliberate obfuscation of a German past...
The label , rooted in earlier Chartist and utopian socialist currents but formalized as parties and international organizations formed around socialist-democratic agendas. Contemporary accounts disagr...
(also written R‑Z19 in some trees) is a downstream branch of the R1b (R‑M343) paternal Y‑DNA lineage that sits within the U106/L48 sector of R1b, a lineage long associated with northwestern ; many inv...
The terminal SNP label cannot be cleanly equated to “Germanic” or “Celtic” in the way everyday language treats those terms, because R1b is a deep paternal lineage that split into many subclades long b...
Scandinavian programs — exemplified by Sweden’s SEIF — deliver mixes of group and individual treatment and report reductions in measured criminogenic needs and hypersexuality in pilots, but rigorous e...
show that during the early Middle Ages left a measurable northern‑continental autosomal signal in , concentrated in eastern and southern , and that associated with Germanic and n source populations — ...
(aka S21/M405) is a major western‑European Y‑lineage concentrated in northwest Europe and Central Europe, with the highest relative frequencies reported in the and and notable presence across , and pa...
(also called L48/S162) is a subclade of the R1b‑U106 branch that genetic projects and trees date to roughly 4,200–4,600 years before present and which modern and ancient‑DNA work links to populations ...
A qualified gunsmith proofing an antique Mauser receiver for use with modern cartridges begins with a careful reading of the rifle’s proof marks and manufacture history, then conducts a methodical phy...
The blanket claim that “communism and socialism has never worked” is too sweeping: no nation has achieved the classless, moneyless communist end-state described by Marx, but various forms of socialism...