Casey Michel
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New York, United States
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Past articles by Casey:
Texas Republicans Get Deadly Serious About Secession
The Lone Star State’s GOP plays with fire. → Read More
How the West Undermines Its Own Sanctions
The Western sanctions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have been far broader than many experts anticipated. But there’s a catch. → Read More
Why does Russia want to invade Ukraine? To rewrite the post-Cold War order
Moscow’s demands were always about more than the security arrangements in Ukraine. The West can’t say we weren’t warned. → Read More
How Trump’s Real Estate Holdings Attract Kleptocrats
Thousands of sales in his properties—worth hundreds of millions of dollars—fit standard profiles for money laundering. → Read More
Franklin Graham’s Hangouts with Sanctioned Putin Pal
Russia continues to cultivate relations with American conservative Christians. → Read More
America enabled Afghanistan's corruption for years. The Taliban knew it.
America enabled Afghanistan corruption for years, from Bush to Trump to Biden. The Taliban knew about the money and kleptocracy, and exploited it. → Read More
The Investigator: Sen. Carl Levin (1934–2021)
The anti-kleptocracy campaigns of the Michigan lawmaker were ahead of their time. → Read More
Connecting Fox News' Tucker Carlson, Hungary — and Trump
From targeting migrants to inflaming an ethnonationalist base to whipping up nativist conspiracies, Trumpism is increasingly indistinguishable from Orbánism. → Read More
Fox News star Tucker Carlson's 'great replacement' segment used a new frame for an old fear
There are still plenty of Americans seeking confirmation that their rank nativism is right. → Read More
Casey Michel: Pro-Trump Republican secession rhetoric in Texas and elsewhere is more than a punchline
This kind of seditious rhetoric would spell disaster for the supposedly United States of America. → Read More
Trump’s Tax Returns Are a Scandal for the President—and for America
The recent bombshell report from The New York Times, which obtained two decades’ worth of President Donald Trump’s tax returns, offered a number of remarkable details. Perhaps the most concerning revelations centered on a topic long central to Trump’s rise, and to his presidency: foreign money. → Read More
Is the U.K. Finally Getting Serious About Cracking Down on Dirty Money?
Britain has long been infamous as a money-laundering haven. In 2017, the British government decided to deal with all this dirty money by enacting the Unexplained Wealth Orders, which allow authorities to identify and seize assets related to potential corruption and money laundering. Now it’s finally using them. → Read More
It Looks Like a News App in the Apple Store. It’s Really Russian Propaganda.
The app bills itself as a “one-of-a-kind free streaming service & TV library of news programs.” But every single show is from Kremlin-backed TV channel. → Read More
How Moldova Is Slowly Freeing Itself From the Grip of Corrupt Oligarchs
An unlikely coalition government in Moldova, between the pro-Western ACUM bloc and the pro-Russian Socialists, collapsed last November. But there is still political optimism among ACUM’s supporters and other pro-reform figures, as the country presses forward with “de-oligarchization” reforms. → Read More
How the US became the center of global kleptocracy
The US has become the key cog in the machine of modern kleptocracy worldwide. But it didn’t start with Trump. → Read More
American Kleptocrats Finally Feel the Heat
The House did something really big last week, and the Senate could actually follow suit soon. → Read More
Trump’s Big Lie About Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Ukraine Falls Apart
In pushing to oust the former prosecutor, Biden did the right thing, no matter the personal cost. → Read More
Rudy Giuliani’s Year of Living Dangerously
The Ukraine scandal that's engulfed the Trump White House is the culmination of the former New York City mayor's Eastern European misadventures. → Read More
White supremacist James Allsup has been banned from YouTube
Allsup, who marched at the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, is one of a number of accounts axed. → Read More
Ethics experts throw cold water on Trump’s offer to host the next G7 summit
The only way he could host the summit and stay on the right side of the law? Make everything free. → Read More