Matthew Yglesias
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While North Korea may be more of an urgent threat and Iran and cyber terrorism are also great concerns, Joseph Dunford says Russia poses the greatest threat to U.S. security.
Trump’s Attack on Russia Inquiry Is From Familiar Playbook: The Clintons’
The president’s strategy for navigating the inquiry is adopted from the Clintons’ approach to the Whitewater and Lewinsky investigations.
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12h ago
I Support Dacha Beer Garden on 14th Street
Dacha Needs Your Help to Win Licensing to Generate Significant Tax Revenues, Create Hospitality Jobs, and Contribute a New Community Social Option!
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I’m not excited about a Dacha location opening up around the corner from me but am signing this on principle!
20h ago
A Republican Health Care Fix
It’s conservative to offer government assistance.
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Curiously @JDVance1's op-ed "A Republican Health Care Fix" does not propose a health care fix of any kind.
22h ago
Fabulous At Fifty by Rafael Yglesias | Rafael Yglesias
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Breaking From Campaign Rhetoric, Trump Brings Terrorism Suspect to U.S. for Trial
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has adamantly favored holding suspects in Guantánamo Bay. That rhetoric is meeting the reality of fighting terrorism in 2017.
Can we get to 350 ppm? Yes we can
There’s been a fair bit of buzz about an article in New York Magazine with an apocalyptic picture of climate change over the next century. I’ll for a more complete response later. But a…
A Conversation with Maggie Haberman, Trump’s Favorite Foe
The Times correspondent Maggie Haberman discusses covering a chaotic Administration, the rival gangs inside the White House, and more.
The accounts from Sergey Kislyak to his superiors, intercepted by U.S. spy agencies, contradict public assertions by the attorney general.
Trump’s new communications director used to call him an anti-American hack politician
But Trump loves hedge funds now, so it’s okay.
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Scaramucci’s old Trump-bashing is a reminder of how much Trump ran as an anti-bank candidate
44h ago
Senate’s budget rules invalidate key provisions in Republican health care bill
Repealing and replacing Obamacare just got harder.
Stuart Varney: Trump has already made America $4 trillion richer (with just six months in office)
The media coverage of the president is overwhelmingly negative: the press remains contemptuous, and they're pushing to get him out before he completes his first term.
The superintendent of the park was pulled from a delegation with the Facebook CEO, who was there to learn about climate change.
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Bizarre story about the Trump administration being mad that Mark Zuckerberg went to a national park.
44h ago
The Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr. after his father won the Republican nomination for the 2016 U.S. presidential election counted Russia's FSB security service among her clients for years, Russian court documents seen by Reuters show.
Republicans Can’t Pass Bills
The G.O.P. used to be willing to govern. Not now.
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Matthew Yglesias
"Donald Trump is a boob, but that doesn’t explain why Republicans can’t govern from Capitol Hill."
2d ago
How Donald Trump is monetising his presidency
Six months in, Mr Trump’s conflicts of interest look even worse
Decision came as a surprise to Reince Priebus
The U.S. special counsel investigating possible ties between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia in last year’s election is examining a broad range of transactions involving Trump’s businesses as well as those of his associates, according to a perso