Tag: Russia

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Is Trump the New Clinton?

Musa al-Gharbi

March 06, 2018

If Democrats are hoping Robert Mueller's investigation will bring down Trump, they could be in for another defeat in 2020.

Russia’s Zombie Election

Natalia Antonova

February 08, 2018

We shouldn’t even be framing this as an election; it’s more like a protracted episode of Tales from the Crypt.

A Most Incompetent Spy

Jacob Silverman

December 11, 2017

Gregory Allen Justice was seeking to take control of his life.

What the Bolsheviks Saw

Siddhartha Deb

November 01, 2017

A re-imagining of the events of October 1917, by one of one of the edgiest and most political of writers working today.

Who’s Afraid of the Russian Soul?

Hannah Gais

August 31, 2017

To speak of the character or “soul” of an entire country—one that spans two continents—is to give up on understanding out of preference for feelings.

Voting Off the Apprentice President

Kathleen Geier

June 19, 2017

A Trump impeachment would demonstrate to voters that the Democratic Party’s days of coddling the rich and powerful are over.

The Anatomy of Liberal Melancholy

J.M. Bernays

April 25, 2017

In a moment that cries out for new approaches to economics and politics, liberalism regresses to a simpler time.

High Nunes

Jacob Silverman

April 04, 2017

Official oversight commissions tend to perform all of the trappings of democratic accountability while rarely resulting in lasting reform.

The Security State Wags Its Tongue

Jacob Silverman

March 29, 2017

You would think we would have learned by now, after the invasion of Iraq and the election of Donald Trump . . .

Follow the Mendacity

Chris Lehmann

February 16, 2017

The key directive for the media, now that the Post’s reporting has claimed its first White House casualty, is not to let up on its side of its battle with the Trump White House for a moment. After all, the Flynn saga shows in stark relief that the preferred operating procedure ...

Russia to Our Right

Max B. Sawicky

January 11, 2017

Russian interference in U.S. politics during the elections of 2016 and beyond is one big, fat, ugly squirrel. It commands attention but distracts from the related but more important matter of rising, Russian-supported far-right movements throughout the world, which support ...

The Russia House

Max B. Sawicky

December 12, 2016

“Russians pretty bad people, Mr. Wessby,” Tiu agreed. “They stink bad.” — John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy I, for one, do not look forward to the rule of our new Russophilic overlords. The Trump camp is lousy with Putin apologists, including ...