Today on TAP: Vladimir Putin turns to damage control after Trump’s strike against Iran
Vladimir Putin
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Russia, America, and Creeping Authoritarianism
Anastasia Edel, author of ‘Russia: Putin’s Playground: Empire, Revolution, and the New Tsar,’ has critiqued the Trump administration’s inhumane immigration policies and warns that Americans should be on guard against what could come next.
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Trump, Putin, and the Plague on America
It’s not just them—it’s us.
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Trump Is Selling Out America, and His Supporters Love It
Whatever Putin has on Trump is reshaping global politics.
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Putin Must Love Having Trump on His Side
It must be nice to have Washington on your side. Vladimir Putin has to be heading home scratching his head. His meeting with Trump was choreographed to be cordial. But why on earth did Trump need to repeat, in even stronger terms, that he believes Putin’s denials over the extensive investigations of the entire U.S. […]
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Trump Turns Against Putin
Here’s this week’s news quiz. Why did Donald Trump attack his chum Vladimir Putin after reports that Putin’s puppet, Bashar al-Assad, had again used nerve gas to kill children in a rebel-held area near Damascus? A) Is Trump, with Robert Mueller closing in, trying to signal distance from Putin? B) Is his new national security […]
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Putin, Trump, and Cold War II
The Kremlin’s serial incursions demand a response to defend America. Is Trump even aware of them—or is he too busy being Putin’s enabler?
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Putin’s Acts of War and America’s Muddled Response
When Vladimir Putin decided to use front organizations to leak confidential emails from the Hillary Clinton campaign and deploy bots and troll farms to rev up domestic hate groups and divide progressive ones, this was nothing less than an act of war. More than a year later, U.S. intelligence agencies have warned that more is […]
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Trump, Putin, and the Pacifist Left
Never were their stranger bedfellows. But is there anything to the case for possible common ground with Putin?
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The GOP Is Becoming a Pro-Putin Party. Where Is Trump Going to Lead Them Next?
With Trump in the White House, it turns out the Republican establishment is surprisingly suggestible.
