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The Most Successful Covert Operation Since the Trojan Horse…and It Wasn’t So Covert
Russia has been trying to weaken the United States since the first days of the Cold War. But in that entire span of three-quarters of a century, even with the success of its spies and counter-espionage measures, it has never…
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Will American Tear Itself Apart?
One of our regulars, Ed Luce of the Financial Times, had an article in the Weekend FT called “Will America tear itself apart: The Supreme Court, 2020 elections and a looming constitutional crisis.” It is an incisive look into a…
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A Song of Fire and Ice…and Cyber and Terrorists and Lawyers
In Game of Thrones, leadership decisions were made with the help of dragons and Moon Doors and Valyrian steel daggers. In America today, people play just as rough but their tools are cyber warfare, disinformation, mobilized extremist groups and court…
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From a Wannabe Authoritarian to the Perfect Weapon
Donald Trump has unleashed resources of his government to support his campaign against Joe Biden in a way that America would condemn were it the behavior of any foreign government. In fact, as David Sanger pointed out in a recent…
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From the 25th Amendment to a Trip to the Hague: What to Do About Trump?
The increasingly erratic president was pretty erratic to begin with. Which has made the past week all the more unnerving. Throw in revelations about the unusual layers of secrecy and the cover ups surrounding the president’s health and new revelations about…
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The 3 a.m. Call is Coming from Inside the White House
The biggest national security story in America today is the biggest domestic story and the biggest political story and the biggest economic story and the biggest public health story. The COVID outbreak at the White House might have resulted in…
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Shit Show or Clusterfuck? (And are we talking about the debates, Trump’s taxes or the whole Trump presidency?)
The debate this week was a trainwreck inside a dog’s breakfast wrapped in bad acid trip. It was, despite the best efforts of Joe Biden to discuss the issues, chaotic. But that’s what President Trump wanted. Because it distracts from…
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America’s Devastating Cultural Depression: The Time for Action is Now
Among our many looming challenges is one that has not gotten sufficient attention. The United States is in the midst of an unprecedented cultural depression–the arts have been devastated by this crisis like few other groups and billions of dollars…
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Our Unfolding Democratic Emergency: The Red Lights are Already Flashing
The Constitutional rot of the past four years has set the stage for the corruption of our institutions and, equally importantly, for growing delegitimization of our government. This plays into the hands of a president who is ever more desperate…
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The Most Precarious Moment for American Democracy Since the Civil War
The President of the United States has deliberately raised questions about whether our democratic system will work properly while actively working to ensure it does not. From voting to the courts to the enforcement of our laws, our institutions seem…
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Have We Already Seen the October Surprise?
Is a resurgent COVID the October Surprise? Is it the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Will it be the nomination and approval of a replacement for her prior to the election? Will it be the announcement of a vaccine? …
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Setting the Agenda at a Watershed Moment for Women’s Rights in America
Cecile Richards is the CEO and founder of Supermajority, a new organization for “women’s activism, training and the mobilization of a multiracial, intergenerational community to fight for gender equality.” She was previously president of Planned Parenthood and the Planned Parenthood Action…
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What Happens When We Lose a National Hero a Moment When the Entire US Government Faces a Crisis of Legitimacy?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a rarity in Washington, a true hero, one of those voices who would not be silenced by conventional wisdom or the zeitgeist or politics or the pushback of the powerful. Her loss therefore is not simply…
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Time for Dems to Get Off Their Fainting Couches
Those of you waking up this morning to a war for the soul of the American judiciary have not been paying attention. This war began decades ago when right wing donors began actively seeking to remake the courts. They made…
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The Question That Looms Above the Trump Presidency
Michael Schmidt’s new book “Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President” is one of the required reads of this moment in our history. It gets deep inside the effort to protect the president as…
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