A pair of books released weeks before the election, written by key players in the post-2016 investigation of Donald Trump’s multiple ties to Russia, brings our attention back to something that Republicans say is a hoax and Democrats seem all too ready to forget: that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin apparently has leverage over the Manhattan […]

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Donald Trump is a habitual liar. Despite his constant denials, most people believe he slept with a porn star and then paid her to keep their liaison quiet. Certainly the New York jury that found him guilty of 34 felonies for falsifying business records didn’t buy his story. However, big lies sometimes work. Public opinion […]

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With the election little more than a week away, the political scientist and strategist Rachel Bitecofer, author of the tough-minded Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts, sees some grounds for optimism about Kamala Harris in a nail-biting race that is effectively tied and still too close to call. As a confidential advisor to some campaigns in […]

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On July 8th, the Defense Department announced that it was not going to terminate the Air Force’s troubled Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), but would instead sink more taxpayer dollars into a weapons system estimated to cost $140.9 billion, an increase of 81% over an initial 2020 estimate of $77.7 billion. The Sentinel ICBMs—with a […]

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When it comes to Donald Trump, it’s always about one thing: money. So why, you might ask, didn’t the various investigations of Trump’s Russia connection — by special counsel Robert Mueller and the FBI, by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, by several House committees, by the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New […]

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