Y’all, there’s so much happening. I want to talk about health care, and the procedural ruin that is happening in our Congress, and the broader failure of the underlying structure of representative democracy in this country, and Jared Kushner’s SF-86, and how horribly terrifying the situation with North Korea seems, and the spate of recent articles suggesting that Russia has hacked U.S. power grids, and the Kobach voter commission which is leading people to unregister to vote (!), and and and and and and …
…but alas it turns out grad school is really hard and time-consuming, so I have to pick and choose. Here’s what I’m focusing on this time.
- The Wall Begins to Crumble: Notes on Collusion (Lawfare)
- Also check out The Russia Connection tag on Lawfare; I especially suggest reading this post as well as this one.
- Trump Jr.’s Russia meeting sure sounds like a Russian intelligence operation (Washington Post) the director of the Intelligence and Defense Project at Harvard’s Belfer Center. He served for three years as director of intelligence and counterintelligence at the Department of Energy and for 23 years as a CIA intelligence officer in domestic and international posts.”]
- U.S. officials probing Russian lobbyist who met Trump team (Politico)
As I’ve said before, I am a big fan of ProPublica:
I’m putting a little plug in here: you can sign up for their weekly update at http://go.propublica.org/weekly. My favorite article of theirs this week: “Trump Lawyer Marc Kasowitz Threatens Stranger in Emails: ‘Watch your back, bitch’.”
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State Department spent more than $15,000 for rooms at new Trump hotel in Vancouver (Washington Post)
- Emoluments Again: What an unpresidential legal argument looks like (Lawfare)
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And finally, some random interesting articles that I enjoyed:
From Russia With Blood (Buzzfeed)
Dissatisfied with the national media’s frame, Appalachia finds its own voice (CJR)
Redneck Revolt: the armed leftwing group that wants to stamp out fascism (The Guardian)
The Heroism of Incremental Care (The New Yorker)
Pope Francis: Labor unions are essential to society (America Magazine)
Pope Francis allies accuse White House of ‘apocalyptic geopolitics’ (The Guardian)
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