This edition covers two weeks. We missed last Friday and the grift did not.

And Why It Could Work

September brought just 29,000 new jobs and two months of downward revisions. But unemployment barely budged. That tells us something important about how the economy has changed

News in a Nut’sHell

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A top Republican senator suspects Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) was handed his bad intel directly by the White House before his possibly career-ending Jack Smith slam dunk.Schmitt was ma...

Donald Trump’s handpicked board has spent all the money the prestigious institution has.

ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...

After two failed attempts to nominate a Maine candidate friendly to the party establishment, the consultant class is finding better success with its third approach, co-optation.

Former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's ex-lover and former bodyguard now faces a felony charge after allegedly breaking into her Cave Creek home and destroying more than $200,000 worth of her belongings...

A rant

It has been four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine forced Germany to begin unwinding its decades-long dependence on Russian energy.

I want to be there when it happens.

His trade war with Trump is a handy distraction from unpopular and neoliberal domestic Canadian policies.

After a decade of Russian operations aimed at helping Trump win elections while attacking his opponents, the Russians are at it again and have shifted their focus to the upcoming midterms.

Kremlev is more than just an oligarch.

The Iron Beam laser and Arrow anti-ballistic missile systems are touted as examples of Israeli military ingenuity. But they were largely developed and financed by the U.S.

Two days into his second term, Trump pardoned the notorious Dark Web crypto-criminal. But who is Ulbricht? What did he do? And why was he speaking at the Republican Midterm Convention?

Yesterday, ProPublica published an excellent in-depth investigation revealing that Umar Kremlev, a Russian businessman close to Putin who runs the International Boxing Association, spent hundreds of t...

From the Baltics to Poland, Europe's eastern edge is monitoring Russia's war to prevent it spilling over its own borders. #EuropeNews

The bond market is warning that 45 years of Republican tax cuts and exploding debt may finally force ordinary Americans to pay for a party the wealthy already enjoyed...

The years-long project to discredit fact-based media and replace it with MAGA slop has been disastrously successful.

Western officials revealed that a joint NATO operation had succeeded in thwarting a secret Russian training exercise to disable critical undersea data cables. #EuropeNews

The websites present crude, AI-generated slop disguised as the voice of real Albertans. But they're made in Florida — and they're not even targeting Albertans directly.

The new government is dismantling the economic machinery of Orbánism. But that is not the same as remaking the order that made it durable.

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A Facebook post by an ex-KGB agent claiming that Donald Trump was recruited by Moscow in 1987 under the code name "Krasnov" has sent social media into a spin. What's the story behind the claim? Eurove...