Trump's interview with Lester Holt leaves no doubt that the Trump Administration, its surrogates, and GOP officials spent two days misleading the American people. The rationale crafted by Rosenstein was.
For a host of reasons, I was pretty skeptical of calls to impeach Trump. For one, it's highly unlikely to happen—even advocating it seems like a distraction from more productive.
With only superficial changes, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld's new piece in Politico could have appeared—at one time or another—in a pro-government outlet in, say, Azerbaijan, North Korea,.
I'm sorry that I haven't been posting lately. Lots of travel and work. But I do have a shiny new episode of Foreign Entanglements—yes, I've joined the masthead there and thereby.
I promised a Part IV, but Foreign Policy asked me to do a piece for them... so I'm pointing you all there. You've seen some of the arguments before, but not all of.
The Urban Dictionary, which helpfully defines "freep" for those of you too young to know the term, has had it's definition of "mansplaining" hijacked by misogynists. I suggest that readers go.
I wasn't that enthusiastic about writing another installment. There's only so much satisfaction from bashing an obvious vanity dissertation. But now I see that some right-wing media outlets are alleging a conspiracy.
Julia Ioffe's article on her interviews with career State Department employees manages to be heartbreaking, appalling, and frightening at the same time. You should read the whole thing, but here.
