How did U.S. space and military communications programs become so dependent on one weird Trump ally whose actions border on treason?
Russia
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Everything You Wanted to Know About World War III but Were Afraid to Ask
For generations, we thought fear of nuclear holocaust would prevent world war. Is that faith obsolete?
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Dear Hackers: Please Send Me the Trump Campaign Emails
Today on TAP: I promise to treat them with the utmost in journalistic integrity.
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Red Weather Vanes
Maurice Isserman’s history of American communism documents both its achievements and its fatal obeisance to Soviet doctrines.
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The Wars Grow Longer
Despite Biden’s wishes, Israel says it’s in it at least until year’s end, while Ukraine now faces an unwinnable war of attrition.
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Who Created the Israel-Palestine Conflict?
It wasn’t really Jews or Palestinians. It was the U.S. Congress, which closed American borders 100 years ago this month.
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Crunch Time for Government Spying
Congress has a few weeks left until a key spying provision sunsets. Both reformers and intelligence hawks are plotting their strategies.
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‘Useful Idiots’—Stalin’s Then and Putin’s Now
Today on TAP: Russian anti-liberalism won the allegiance of Western communists in the 1930s and has won over Trumpist Republicans today.
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The Bipartisan Bid to Stop Surveillance Reform
Rep. Mike Turner may have overstepped by publicly warning about Russian space nukes, but Democrats were also trying to use the intelligence to influence the vote on warrantless spying.
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The GOP Putin Cult
Today on TAP: House Republicans won’t consider aid to Ukraine because, as a homophobic thug, Putin personifies their values.