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    What Authoritarians Mean by ‘Corruption’
    Oct07

    What Authoritarians Mean by ‘Corruption’

    What if the People’s Republic of China fulfilled Donald Trump’s wish and investigated the Bidens? Chinese President Xi Jinping certainly has the machinery to do the job. Upon assuming control of the Communist Party in 2012, he built a vast apparatus to root out corruption. His regime has investigated more than 1 million officials for...

    The U.S. Gives Military Aid to Corrupt Countries All the Time
    Oct05

    The U.S. Gives Military Aid to Corrupt Countries All the Time

    If you take Donald Trump at face value about his infamous phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, which occurred shortly after he mysteriously stopped military aid meant for Ukraine, he was only concerned about sending millions to a country known for corruption. It was just incidentally that he named his political rival’s...

    The Only Time Trump Wants International Cooperation
    Oct05

    The Only Time Trump Wants International Cooperation

    Love your nation. Celebrate its sovereignty. Never buy into the misguided idea that someone else’s country should tell you how to run yours. President Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week was an ode to chest-thumping nationalism. But in one specialized field of human endeavor, Trump seems to believe...

    The Atlantic Politics Daily: Mr. Vice President
    Oct05

    The Atlantic Politics Daily: Mr. Vice President

    Comments or questions? Send us an email anytime. Were you forwarded this email? Sign yourself up here. We appreciate your continued support for our journalism. Today in Politics(Alex Wong / Getty)Vice President Mike Pence has by all accounts been a dutiful Robin to President Donald Trump’s Batman, going to bat for him even in those rare...

    How Republicans Learned to Tolerate Foreign Election Interference
    Oct04

    How Republicans Learned to Tolerate Foreign Election Interference

    When then-candidate Donald Trump urged the Russian government to find Hillary Clinton’s missing emails, in 2016, his own running mate Mike Pence turned on him, warning the Kremlin of “serious consequences” if Russian hackers had interfered in the election. The leader of Trump’s party in the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, advised...

    The Scandal Has Spiraled Out of Trump’s Control
    Oct04

    The Scandal Has Spiraled Out of Trump’s Control

    As last week came to a close, Donald Trump was confronting the most serious crisis of his presidency, as Democrats moved forward with impeachment hearings in a serious scandal over his pressuring Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election.Seven days later, the scandal is even more serious, but it has metastasized. This is no longer a controversy...

    Mike Pence Has Let Us Down
    Oct04

    Mike Pence Has Let Us Down

    In the throes of Watergate, Vice President Spiro Agnew was caught up in an unrelated corruption scandal. He pleaded guilty and resigned his office on October 10, 1973.To that point, Agnew had served as a useful insurance policy for Richard Nixon, in the manner of the joke Charles II is sometimes reputed to have made to his even more unpopular...

    The Fragility of the Trump-Pence Marriage
    Oct04

    The Fragility of the Trump-Pence Marriage

    It was the kind of performance that’s made Mike Pence’s career.Speaking to reporters yesterday in Arizona—his voice slow with that wholesome midwestern drawl, his eyebrows lifted more in sorrow than in anger—the vice president came valiantly to the defense of his persecuted boss amid growing controversy over President Donald...

    You Can’t Drain the Swamp and Also Defend the President
    Oct04

    You Can’t Drain the Swamp and Also Defend the President

    The last serious effort to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C., came after Watergate, when Congress : Trump has filled, not drained, the swamp]The same era witnessed unprecedented efforts to probe the national-security apparatus, culminating in : How the swamp drained Trump]For all those reasons, there is no prospect of Trump really trying to...

    The Mystery of the Ukraine Call Transcript
    Oct04

    The Mystery of the Ukraine Call Transcript

    Twice during a press conference on Wednesday, President Trump went out of his way to assert that a transcript of his call with Ukraine’s president, released last week, was verbatim.“I had a transcript done by very, very talented people — word for word, comma for comma. Done by people that do it for a living. We had an exact transcript,”...