Franklin Foer
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Corey Brickley Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America
When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, Washington bet on the global spread of democratic capitalist values—and lost.
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Mikhail Klimentyev / AFP / Getty The Collusion With Russia Is in Plain Sight
What did Donald Trump say to Vladimir Putin when no one else could hear them?
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Juan Medina / Reuters The Shutdown Makes Trump’s Priorities Painfully Clear
Hundreds of thousands of federal employees will stop receiving paychecks, but deportations of Mauritanians continue.
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Courtesy of Franklin Foer The Girl Who Lived
Remembering my grandmother, whose improbable survival became the foundational story for my family’s existence
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Zach Gibson / Getty / Paul Spella / ... Cory Booker’s Theory of Love
As he eyes a run for president, the senator from New Jersey remains stridently conciliatory.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Curse of The Weekly Standard
At its best, the conservative magazine was lively, warm, and unexpected. But it never had to try very hard.
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Reuters / Department of Justice The Mysterious Return of Manafort’s ‘Russian Brain’
Mueller says that the former Trump campaign chairman repeatedly lied about his interactions with Konstantin Kilimnik, a man with ties to Russian intelligence.
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Diana Walker / Time Life Pictures / Getty The Last WASP President
George H. W. Bush wasn’t the last of the Republican moderates. He was the archetype of the modern GOP, a man whose blue blood shouldn’t be confused with moral courage.
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FreedomMaster / Getty A Prayer for Squirrel Hill—And for American Jewry
The Pittsburgh synagogue killings show that dormant hatreds have reawakened.
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Alex Wong / Getty / Paul Spella / ... Mark Warner Is Coming for Tech’s Too-Powerful
The senator from Virginia says he’s “very annoyed” with Silicon Valley’s “pathetic” response to security concerns.
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Suspended Animation in the Age of Trump
Before Donald Trump was elected, I reported on strange activity linking a Trump-campaign computer server to Moscow. A new report shows how much has changed since 2016—and how many questions still remain.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters / Thanh Do / ... What Paul Manafort Knows
Paul Manafort’s decision to cooperate with Robert Mueller could clarify several of the biggest mysteries of the Russia investigation.
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Joe Raedle / Getty / Boule / ImageFlow ... Elizabeth Warren’s Theory of Capitalism
A conversation with the Democratic senator about why she’s doubling down on market competition at a moment when her party is flirting with socialism
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Brian Snyder / Reuters John McCain’s Epiphany About Paul Manafort
Manafort saw managing the 2008 Republican convention as almost a birthright. But McCain denied him the job. He couldn’t abide Manafort’s pro-Russian clients—and told him so.
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Mark Peterson / Redux Blind Confidence Couldn’t Save Paul Manafort
President Trump's former campaign chairman was found guilty on eight counts of fraud and financial crimes. But it’s not too late for him to cut a deal.
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Bill Hennessy / Reuters The Ultimate Betrayal of Paul Manafort
When Rick Gates turned against his former boss, he described a parallel ethical universe where lying and cheating were as comfortable as a well-tailored ostrich suit.
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Justin Metz How Trump Radicalized ICE
A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy
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Alex Brandon / AP A Hell of a Performance by Paul Manafort
The man who once made strongmen and oligarchs look good is now tasked with rehabilitating his own image before a jury.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Images This Is So Much Bigger Than Paul Manafort
With Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman on trial, America is reckoning with its very serious kleptocracy problem.
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AP The Greatest World Cup Fairy Tale of All Time
Croatia’s unlikely march through the tournament is like the story of a nation that managed to barely survive.
