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Twitter released a treasure trove of data regarding Russian & Iranian efforts to sway public opinion, or to just sow overall dissension. ...

This is Haley's way of contradicting / gently nudging aside Trump's thoughts/impulses regarding Putin & Russia, generally consistent with the accounts of aides hiding papers or not arranging...

From a material standpoint, today's homeless people are in better shape than the pioneers were. They get tons of hand-me-down clothes, nobody starves to death, there's no necessary risk for dying...

Uhhhh... I'm not comparing the two economic situations, I'm just noting the parallels that epidemiologists have found.

We have the most powerful economy on Earth. But as the D-News points out,...

There are some interesting parallels between Russia in the post-Soviet era and some things we're seeing here.

One stat that caught my eye a couple of years ago was the declining life expectancy...

Ease up there, McCarthy. ;)

My weak attempt at levity aside, I fully admit I think Obama was (very) wrong on Russia, and Romney was correct.

The big question is what do we do now? Is the...

Hindsight is 20/20.

Ukraine would never have given up their soviet era nuclear weapons if they knew what Putin was going to do to the eastern part of their nation. That was a colossal error.
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Obama is an idealist. I think he really believed he could do a "reset" with Putin. Obviously, an error.

Mitt was right about that point in the 2012 campaign, and that's probably why Mitt as...

[QUOTE=LA Ute;111542]Really interesting interview here, probably behind the Wall Street Journal paywall. I'll post some excerpts.

Will Putin Ever Leave? Could He if He Wanted?


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Putin views western democracies as weak and vulnerable, and he knows how to exploit internal differences to Russia's advantage.

With an economy half the size of California's there is a TON of...

It would be interesting to know if icebreaker demand is based on historical data, or if warming in the arctic mitigates against the demand. A few weeks ago the North Pole, though shrouded in...