Shakezula posted on the Washington Post story last night, and Scott beat me to it today. There's nothing surprising in the general contours of the emerging reports: Russian agents and organs tried to influence the election. The goal wasn't simply to undermine faith in American institutions...
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On Sunday, Shakezula wrote about the gunman who showed up at Comet Pizza to 'investigate' its possible involvement "in a child trafficking ring run by Clinton." Well, something interesting happened on.
Remember when the Republican Senate shredded the only norm—luck of timing—that stands between the Supreme Court's standing as an institution and the implications of its complete politicization? Here are some.
Over at my other digs, Kindred Winecoff is running a series called "World Politics in a Time of Populist Nationalism" (which, unfortunately, he's decided requires an acronym). They're all 'good' (if you don't calculate values of 'good' based on scariness quotient), but I found the most recent one—Gizem...
I assume that I don't need to spend a lot of time reminding readers of the following: The 2016 election was a breakout year for fake news, and much of that.
Despite showing some questionable judgment about whom to cite, Paul Musgrave has a nice piece in the Washington Post on Russian propaganda and the US election. The whole thing does a good.
(The LGM powers-that-be asked me to adapt something that I wrote on Facebook about Scott.) I only knew Scott via social media and email, and not terribly well. Like everyone else here, I admired his wit and humor; I looked forward to everything that he...
Rob made a brief introduction in his official “welcome” post. Thanks, Rob! And thanks to the LGM community, which has already thrown down the gauntlet. Still, tradition—and a dose of caution—suggests that I.