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One bigly unindicted co-conspirator and other bunches of them, including some in Epstein files now

Trump's efforts to lean on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is reminiscent of the way Nixon created a team of secret investigators, known as "the plumbers," to find incriminating or embarrassing evidence about his enemies, said Ken Hughes, a leading Watergate authority and research specialist at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.

Ken Hughes

How Mamdani’s Budget Announcement Went Viral Far Beyond New York

“The actual process of going through the year of Obamacare was painful and difficult and involved all kinds of trade-offs in the sausage-making process,” Ms. Peri said. “There was so much caricaturing of the experience, with whatever the equivalent of memes was back then, that bore no relation to reality.”

Sarada Peri

Trump’s Government Moves to Spare an Unhappy Taxpayer Named Trump

“Presidents have had corrupt, even criminal, family members,” said Barbara A. Perry, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, citing, among others, Hunter Biden. “But none of them succeeded to the extent of the Trump family in the level of graft achieved.”

Barbara Perry

Trump’s ‘Rush Hour 4’ Tests a Hollywood Comeback in China

Aynne Kokas, the author of Hollywood Made in China, told Newsweek: “Since the expiration of the U.S.-China Film Agreement in 2017, which guaranteed a floor for the number of films entering the Chinese market, it has been more difficult for Hollywood studios to secure release spots in the market.”

Aynne Kokas

Trump Can't Stop Attacking the People Keeping the Military Afloat

Eric and Eliot discuss Trump's bizarre attack on longtime Mitch McConnell aide Robert Karem. They analyze Trump's gross mismanagement of the Department of Defense as exemplified by the US Army budget shortfall due to National Guard deployments to US cities and the border. They debate the intelligence community's leaked assessment of Iran's surviving missile and launcher capabilities and what advice they would give to a hypothetical "normal" administration on how to successfully extricate from Iran. They also review the Trump-Xi Summit in China, assess Trump's designs on Cuba, and discuss the broader implications of Turkey's newly unveiled ICBM.

Eric Edelman

The Lasting Legacy of ‘Peace Through Strength’

Ronald Reagan’s vision of “peace through strength” was realized through an unprecedented buildup of defense capability.

Eric Edelman