Berets were fashionable among radicals and the very old.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Feb. 2026
Wood argues that colleges are not only staffed with a disproportionate number of radicals who indoctrinate the students but also have turned everything from dormitory management to the dining halls over to the left.
Hezbollah was further weakened when rebels overthrew the regime of key ally Syrian President Bashar Assad, cutting off a major supply route for Iranian weapons.
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Adam Geller,
Fortune,
2 Mar. 2026
Operation Aspides was set up two years ago, to help defend maritime traffic against possible attacks by Houthi rebels based in Yemen.
Those funds often backed far-right Republican insurgents.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
Amid the nods to social media and cancel culture and the shallow perils of modern celebrity, the image of Taylor-Joy’s disciplined group of insurgents, who speak in almost archaic, poetic dialogue, strikes a bracing contrast.
Iris Apatow and Costa D'Angelo are the latest troublemakers to stir the pot at Baird.
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Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Jan. 2026
Mindy went from having sort of nothing to too much, and the idea of Mindy and Alfie was just too irresistible, these two troublemakers who find each other.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has played down the violence as the work of a small group of extremists.
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Julia Frankel,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
The gorgeous, haunting animation allows the filmmakers to precisely recreate the Lebanese battlefield and grapple with the events that led to the infamous massacre of Palestinian refugees at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp outside of Beirut at the hands of Lebanese Christian extremists.
Trump started his second presidency by pardoning the insurrectionists who’d wanted to unlawfully extend his first.
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Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
23 Feb. 2026
People's Liberation Army troops under Mao's control either ignored the violence or offered support to the insurrectionists while the country descended into lawlessness and retribution.
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