It will come as no surprise that I agree with Paul Krugman: the current Republican party is an active threat to American liberal democracy. Those who are troubled by the drift of their party find themselves marginalized,...
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Ever since Trump was elected, liberals have been holding on to the ideas that something will save us from this. The nadir of this was people begging the Electoral College.
Mission accomplished! Newly obtained evidence, including satellite photos taken in recent weeks, indicates that.
The idea of Putin as a master strategist, like a sock missing its match, keeps showing up now and again. Certainly, when compared to Trump Putin might as well be the second-coming of Otto Von Bismarck. But for all the...
You've seen Paul's post about yesterday's bombshell New York Times piece. The story it reports, if true, means that Trump knew—since before his inauguration—that the US possessed unequivocal evidence that, first, Russia intervened.
In today's Politico Playbook: REPUBLICANS TO THE WORLD: WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO DO? There was a general consensus in the Capitol yesterday: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP thoroughly embarrassed the.
Scott's already posted about Trump's remarkable performance in Helsinki, which comes after his remarkable performances in London and in Brussels. Indeed, I almost worry that the appalling awfulness of the Helsinki summit will overshadow the horror show of Trump's behavior at the NATO summit and...
We need a formal name for the notion that, over time, Trump's behavior tends toward being indistinguishable from that of someone working on behalf of Moscow. It seems like more.
I had an exchange with a friend earlier today. They suggested that NATO's case of the Trumps is terminal. I disagreed,.
You just need to read this. A quick, unpleasant, taste: And he repeatedly argues against using the word "xenophobia," or the fear of foreigners, writing in side notes that he has concerns over "the malleability of the term now and in the future." "[W]hat real...
Natasha Bertrand has more on the fears of NATO allies about the upcoming summit and the Trump-Putin hobnob. After discussing Trump's latest tweet asserting.
Josh Rogin write in the Washington Post that: Trump has been publicly trashing the E.U. and NATO since his campaign, but the pace and viciousness of his attacks have increased..