Section: The Atlantic (USA)
Five Conclusions From the Mueller Report
I spent the week after the release of the Mueller report going through it section by section and writing a kind of diary of the endeavor. My goal was less to summarize the report, than to force myself to think about each factual, legal, and analytical portion of Mueller’s discussion, which covers a huge amount of a ground.Here are five...
Photos of the Week: Unicorn Factory, Bavarian Pilgrims, Miniature Chernobyl
Thanos in the Philippines, an adoptive cat in Crimea, mourning in Sri Lanka, Holy Week in Jerusalem, ANZAC Day in Australia, flooding in Quebec, a light show in Romania, stylish indoor tennis in Barcelona, Kim Jong Un in Russia, an Easter parade in New York City, equestrian vaulting in France, and much more. …read more Source: The...
Russia Is Giving Passports to Separatists in Ukraine. That’s Not Unusual.
Russia’s announcement this week that it intends to issue passports to residents of the breakaway Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk is provocative—Kiev has called it “aggression” and Washington has labeled it “provocative”—but it is hardly novel.Granting passports is, in effect, the equivalent of handing out citizenship, and...
Luckily for the Trump Team, Campaign-Finance Laws Are Hard to Break
Campaign-finance law may be one of the few areas of the law where ignorance is bliss. In Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s February 2018 indictment of Russian operatives, he stated that Russians talked to unwitting individuals associated with the Trump campaign. The open question over the past year was whether there was any intentional...
What If Everything Mueller Told Us Had Been New?
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report gave a damning overall portrait of the president, and yet that portrait surprised no one. Because the public has been treated to so much evidence of Donald Trump’s dishonesty and hectic leadership, the shock has worn off. Finding out suddenly that one’s president is crooked is jarring;...
Photos of the Week: Water Festival, Candy Candidate, Uruguayan Gaucho
Fashion in Pakistan, Ivanka Trump in Ethiopia, ongoing protests in Sudan, Passover in Israel, a huge election in Indonesia, Holy Week celebrations in Spain, an aircraft with the world’s longest wingspan, Notre-Dame cathedral ablaze in Paris, Easter preparations in Ukraine, performances at Coachella, spring skiing in Siberia, and much more....
The French Ambassador Is Retiring Today. Here’s What He Really Thinks About Washington.
Kate WarrenGérard Araud, the charmingly blunt French ambassador to the United States, is famous for two things: the lavish parties he hosts at his Kalorama mansion, and his willingness to say (and tweet) things that other ambassadors might not even think, much less state in public.Araud ends his nearly five-year tenure in Washington today, and...
Read Robert Mueller’s Written Summaries of His Russia Report
Attorney General William Barr released Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full report on Thursday. Contained therein were the summaries Mueller’s team prepared for the nearly 450-page-long document—presumably, the details he felt were most important to know. The report details Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election and details...
Ukraine’s Election Is an All-Out Disinformation Battle
Support for this article was provided by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.KYIV, Ukraine—“Everything,” Dmytro Zolotukhin tells me, “is going like they wanted.”Slumped in a chair in a café here in the Ukrainian capital, Zolotukhin wasn’t talking about the campaign of Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian who is favored to win the...
The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Once Upon a Crime
What We’re Following TodayIt’s Thursday, April 11. ‣ A U.S. federal court unveiled an indictment charging the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with conspiring in 2010 with the former U.S. Army analyst Chelsea Manning to illegally obtain secret U.S. intelligence. Earlier today, British police arrested Assange in response to the United...
