Section: US & Canada
Obama-Era Ambassador to Russia: Obama Admin Efforts to Counter Russian Disinformation Were ‘Ineffective’
Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia under President Barack Obama, said on Sunday that the Obama administration’s efforts to counter Russian disinformation were “ineffective.” McFaul discussed how Russian President Vladamir Putin has used disinformation in the past and he himself experienced disinformation in 2012...
The Dates Fit Together
I want to follow up on a point I made over the weekend: the Trump Family’s decisive turn to paying cash as opposed to financing their projects with debt starting in 2006 isn’t just an odd and hard to explain in itself. The shift also dovetails almost perfectly with his shift to reliance on money from Russia and Ukraine. 2006 is also...
Russia’s Putin Sworn In As President
Vladimir Putin, who has been either president or prime minister of Russia since 1999, was sworn in for a fourth term as president Monday at the Grand Kremlin Palace’s ornately-decorated Andreyevsky Hall with his hand on a gold-embossed copy of the constitution. He will not be able to run for a fifth term as president unless there is a...
One Ukrainian Soldier Killed In Country’s East
Ukraine says one of its soldiers has been killed and four wounded in clashes in the country’s east. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Even as fear of Russia is rising, its military spending is actually decreasing
In terms of its military presence, Russia has rivaled the United States in recent years, launching major operations in Ukraine and Syria and having rising ambitions in the Arctic. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Social Science Fails to Prove Racists Elected Trump
The field of “Trump studies” is vast—but disappointingly homogenous. One way to understand its paradoxical scope and uniformity is through co-occurrence searches on Google Scholar. A query for “Donald Trump” and “racism,” for instance, would net you more than 8,000 articles published since 2016 in journals or textbooks or cited in academic...
The “Forgotten War” between Russian-backed forces and Ukrainian troops
Ahead of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration, Russia staged a parade in Moscow’s Red Square. Some of the weapons on display are likely being used in the so-called “Forgotten War” between Russia and Ukraine. Holly Williams reports. …read more Source:...
Scanlan: Cooking with class — home-cooked meals in a school setting
Nancy Watzenboeck was in Italy when she heard about a topic explored in this space: the lost art of home cooking. “Seven people sent me your article when I was away,” Watzenboeck says. “Everything mentioned in there is kind of what we’re trying to achieve with our classes.” At Earl of March Secondary School in Kanata, Watzenboeck teaches a...
The Trumps Turned to Cash As the Russia Money Channel Fell Into Place
There’s a lot of understandable buzz about two and a half articles published yesterday tied to President Trump’s finances and the Russia probe. The half we’ve already discussed, the news about presidential confidant Tom Barrack. The others are a detailed piece about Michael Cohen’s finances in the Times and a fascinating...
Trump Is About to Provoke an Unnecessary Crisis With Iran
Editor’s Note: This article is part of a debate about whether to stay in the Iran deal. Read the other entries here. There’s a decent chance that tearing up the Iran deal, as Trump seems likely to do next week, will lead to escalating confrontation with Iran throughout the Middle East, diplomatic isolation of the United States, and...
