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Make no mistake, Raul Castro will orchestrate Cuba’s election results

Cuba’s National Assembly will gather on April 19 to choose Cuba’s next leader, and for the first time in more than 60 years he or she is unlikely to bear the Castro name.

Cristina Lopez-Gottardi

Kings of the Hill

t’s All Things Capitol Hill this week on Bipodisan: Mary Kate Cary and Jean Card (R’s) lament the retirement of Speaker Ryan, while Paul Orzulak and Robert Schlesinger (D) wonder about the timing of the announcement. All four agree on the cringe-worthiness of some of the questions posed to the founder of “The Facebook” in the hearings, and on some reasonable measures that could be taken to protect users’ privacy. Plus their reaction to reports of a profane tirade in a local grocery store by The Mystery Congressman.

Mary Kate Cary

'Putin's chef' could expose Mueller investigation

Legal experts said Concord’s apparent attempt to challenge Mueller’s charges could be a way for documents and details about the special counsel’s investigation to be released in discovery. Russia could potentially glean information about how the U.S. gathers intelligence and even about its sources, Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash, a professor of law and Miller Center Senior Fellow at the University of Virginia, told Newsweek.

Saikrishna Prakash

Of Course Trump Can Fire Mueller. He Shouldn’t.

Firing Mr. Mueller would be a grave political mistake — “suicide” as a Republican senator, Charles Grassley, rightly put it — yet protecting the independent counsel with a new statute would prescribe a cure far worse than the disease. Instead, President Trump should seize the initiative. He should retain Mr. Mueller in exchange for a fixed deadline for the investigation.

Saikrishna Prakash

Like watching a Watergate documentary on fast-forward

n Monday, the FBI raided the Manhattan offices of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen. The agents raided Cohen’s office, home and hotel room to seize tax returns, financial records and communications between the lawyer and his clients, including Trump. They were executing a search warrant on behalf of the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York after a referral from Robert S. Mueller III, a 1973 UVA Law graduate who is the special counsel in the Russia investigation. It was an extremely unusual move, according to presidential historian Ken Hughes.

Ken Hughes

Anna Chennault: the woman who helped Nixon sell out peace to win the presidency

In 2014, Ken Hughes, a diligent researcher at the Miller Center of the University of Virginia, confirmed the story in exhaustive detail in his book on the Chennault affair, as did Nixon biographer John A. Farrell in his book last year.

Ken Hughes