Jacob Weisberg
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A Spoiler-Filled Discussion of Succession Season 2, Episode 5
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, Jacob Weisberg, and Katie Baker break down the episode. → Read More
What It Was Like to Be Called Out by Putin During the Helsinki Press Conference
Putin really doesn’t like Bill Browder. → Read More
What It’s Like to Be a Federal Public Defender on the Border Right Now
“I’ve never in all the years of doing this had to repeatedly tell a client ‘I’m sorry, I can’t believe that this country did this to you and your child.’ ” → Read More
Grifter or Grafter? A New Parlor Game That Explains Trumpworld.
The White House can be divided between the theatrically corrupt and the quietly self-dealing. → Read More
The Brilliant Egomaniac Who Could Bring Down Donald Trump
In praise of Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti. → Read More
Did Donald Trump Pay Porn Star Stormy Daniels to Keep Quiet About an Affair?
What she told me before the election, and why I think she went silent. → Read More
Where Does Trump Fall on the Dictator Spectrum?
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Getting Into the Weeds of Trump’s Russia Scandal
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Trump Contradicts His Own National Security Strategy
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Rating the GOP Tax Bill
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Bill Browder’s Cyprus Problem
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Would Male Harassers’ Resignations Bring Justice to the Women They’ve Hurt?
To listen to the discussion, use the player below: On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, David Plotz, Zoe Chace of This American Life, and chairman o ... → Read More
The Three-Week Fox News Diet
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The Giant Pool: a Money Laundering Explainer
It’s routinized, it’s brazen, and it may implicate the Trump Organization. How does it work? → Read More
The Watergate Comparisons Keep Stacking Up
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The Dystopian Future of a Mike Pence Presidency?
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Foreign Policy Is a Mess Under Trump
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The End of Impunity?
All the president’s accusers. → Read More
More Rules of Impeachment
To the Editors: I write to clear up misconceptions about the Constitution, the law, and my book in the review of The Case for Impeachment. The reviewers’ most serious error, with profound implications for current debates, is their claim that impeachment is inapplicable to offenses occurring prior to the presidency. The reviewers cite no authorities for this proposition and ignore the lack of any… → Read More
The First Edition of #AskTrumpcast
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