PutinCon: A Gathering of the Kremlin's Greatest Enemies
Putin's critics gather in Hell's Kitchen.
Putin's critics gather in Hell's Kitchen.
Rybka has spent the past several years as a protegee of pickup artist and seduction coach Alex Lesley-and picked up a plausible claim to 2016 election dirt along the way.
Argues that secret wiretap authorizations were not abused.
A total of 32 claims of tax and bank fraud in concealing foreign income.
The "information warfare" described in Friday's indictment is not an existential threat to American democracy.
Alex Van Der Zwaan's plea is latest criminal case to come out of Robert Mueller's investigation.
Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, Robby Soave and Nick Gillespie talk gun violence, immigration politics, Russian electoral interference, and Black Panther.
James Woolsey says America only interferes in other nations' elections "for a very good cause," but he can't keep a straight face while saying it.
The way to achieve peace is not to prepare for war but to reject militarism and empire, and embrace nonintervention.
Thirteen individuals and three companies accused of conspiracy against the U.S., wire fraud, and identity theft.
Trump says he's inclined to do so, but letter expresses concerns about "sensitive passages."
The Nunes memo says the FBI deceived the court. Grassley's memo suggests the FBI was tricked itself.
The FBI's disappointing surveillance of Carter Page illustrates the difficulty of implicating the president in illegal collusion.
Why should we have to rely on Dem and GOP spin? Americans have every right to know what happened.
Reason editors debate The Memo, situational libertarianism, Super Bowl highlights, and the political road back to fiscal sanity.
Democrats and journalists routinely accuse the Trump administration of being "compromised" by a Russian government that's "attacking our Constitution"
Democrat Adam Schiff might be right that GOP operatives want to derail the Russia probe. But the FBI and Justice Department lost credibility a long time ago.
Now that it's out, nobody's minds seem to have changed.
Nunes report claims Democratic Party-origins of Steele dossier concealed from court.
Trump has reviewed a document alleging FBI misconduct. It might be released Friday.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the president's role in writing an ass-covering statement that was misleading but not illegal.
But partisan Democrats tried to use a fake news scare to quash it anyway.
Trump tried to force end of Russian investigation back in June.
From Ron Johnson to Fox News and beyond, Team Red has replaced skeptical scrutiny of Obama-era executive branch activity with dimwitted counterpunching for Trump.
Robert Mueller's handling of his investigation is not above criticism, but many critiques miss the mark.
The FBI's handling of the Michael Flynn case is disturbing.
This federal law is about punishing the speech of political enemies, not protecting sensitive international negotiations.
By selectively editing a quote, the magazine overstates its case.
Forget petty Russian meddling in American elections; the greater threat is government messing with our freedom.
Information-and, yes, misinformation-flows more easily and cheaply than ever, making access nearly universal. That's a good thing.
This week's show covers Venezuela, the New York City terrorist attack, Russian hackers, the Republican tax agenda, and a preview of a debate on Capitalism.
Do not ignore the self-interest of elected officials in controlling online political messaging.
Stop scapegoating Russia for America's divisions—and stop using Moscow as an excuse to call for restrictions on speech.
Satan is on Clinton's side, and check out this coloring book featuring a buff Bernie Sanders!
If our democracy cannot survive another 43 hours of political videos on YouTube, it is already doomed.
Why didn't the Obama administration do anything?
George Papadopoulos lied about contact with people connected to the Russian government, the FBI says. He's been answering questions for the feds since July.
The Soviet elite who built a "dictatorship of the proletariat" and paid with their lives
A report says the Trump administration is on the verge of sending arms to Ukraine. That's a terrible idea.
Trying to minimize those divisions isn't very democratic.
Russian panic is the excuse to try to control online speech.
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