Section: The Atlantic (USA)
The Atlantic Daily: Evolve and Unify
What We’re FollowingElection Ups and Downs: Newly released Congressional testimony from Carter Page, a former Trump campaign aide, reveals an extensive, complex, and at times contradictory web of connections between Page and Russia. Meanwhile, turning to this year’s campaign, Democrat Ralph Northam is facing off against President...
A Collection of Lenins, on the 100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution
Russia is marking the 100th anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution on November 7, 2017. Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace, in the second of two revolutions in 1917, which, combined, ended Tsarist rule and set the stage for the creation of the Soviet Union. Lenin died in 1924, but his legacy and image have lived on...
Trump Didn’t Tell the Truth About Russia
Shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated, he gave a press conference in which he addressed subjects including the probe into Russia’s role in the 2016 election. Americans should go back and reflect on the remarks that he delivered. They constitute a betrayal of leadership more serious than most realized at the time.When Trump spoke, the...
Trump Didn’t Tell the Truth About Russia
Shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated, he gave a press conference in which he addressed subjects including the probe into Russia’s role in the 2016 election. Americans should go back and reflect on the remarks that he delivered. They constitute a betrayal of leadership more serious than most realized at the time.When Trump spoke, the...
How the Manafort Indictment Gave Bite to a Toothless Law
The indictment of Trump campaign officials Paul Manafort and Rick Gates on Monday is, among many other things, the most significant prosecution of a Foreign Agents Registration Act violation ever.Manafort and Gates have been charged with a litany of federal crimes including conspiracy against the United States and tax fraud. They’re also...
Robert Mueller Is Just Getting Started
With the release of his first indictments and a surprise plea deal on Monday morning, Special Counsel Robert Mueller sketched a partial outline of his team’s investigation into Russian electoral meddling and took control of a news narrative that had been increasingly dominated by his conservative critics.Legal experts said the court filings...
‘Twas the Night Before Halloween
On the eve of this year’s traditional All Hallows’ Eve, a collection of spooky, scary, (and fun) images from recent haunted houses, zombie walks, Halloween parties, and more. Today’s photographs come to us from Chile, England, Japan, Sweden, Mexico, Ukraine, Bolivia, Singapore, and across the U.S. …read more Source: The...
‘Twas the Night Before Halloween
On the eve of this year’s traditional All Hallows’ Eve, a collection of spooky, scary, (and fun) images from recent haunted houses, zombie walks, Halloween parties, and more. Today’s photographs come to us from Chile, England, Japan, Sweden, Mexico, Ukraine, Bolivia, Singapore, and across the U.S. …read more Source: The...
What Will Mueller Do?
Washington is waking up on Monday waiting to see who will be arrested. Multiple news outlets reported Friday night that Special Counsel Robert Mueller obtained a sealed indictment from a federal grand jury in the nation’s capital—the first one of the Russia investigation. But like so many other aspects of Mueller’s probe, the who,...
Robert Mueller’s First Charges
It’s the end of the beginning for the Russia investigation. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team has reportedly filed the first criminal charges as part of the sprawling inquiry into Moscow’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, CNN reported Friday night.Citing “sources briefed on the matter,” the network said a...
