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Russia
Posted inBooks
Red Weather Vanes
Maurice Isserman’s history of American communism documents both its achievements and its fatal obeisance to Soviet doctrines.
Posted inAmerica and the World
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.
Posted inAmerica and the World
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.
Posted inPolitics
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.
Posted inTAP
‘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.
Posted inPolitics
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.
Posted inTAP
The GOP Putin Cult
Today on TAP: House Republicans won’t consider aid to Ukraine because, as a homophobic thug, Putin personifies their values.
Posted inAmerica and the World
A Make-or-Break Year for a Ukraine in Limbo
Between its stalled counteroffensive and divisions in the U.S. and Europe, Ukraine is stuck in a doom loop.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Trump’s Plan to Destroy NATO Would Spark Untold Chaos
If America reneges on its treaty commitments, the result will be mass rearmament and likely nuclear proliferation.
