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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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.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The Perilous Pursuit of Complete Victory in Ukraine
U.S. policymakers should listen to Gen. Clausewitz, not Gen. MacArthur.
Posted inTAP
MAGA and MR(Russia)GA Worship the Same Bloody Gods
Today on TAP: It grows hard to distinguish the Putinists from Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Posted inPodcasts
Putin’s War Goes Sideways
Ukraine is starting the summer campaign, and his pet mercenary warlord marched on Moscow.