As Xi goes to meet Putin, here’s a little thing I wrote for POLITICO Magazine that is likely to annoy the China hawks. Enjoy! politico.com/news/magazine/…

"Depriving high school and college students of skills for critical inquiry and books that complicate or undermine origin myths seems to be an effort to preserve the whitewashed view of history that politicians stoke for political gain." —Sheryll Cashin politico.com/news/magazine/…

A boozy tale from Vladimir Putin's shadowy vodka empire:

Vladimir Putin uses vodka the same way the tsars did, reports Mark Lawrence Schrad. A great read in POLITICO Magazine today: politico.com/news/magazine/…

Opinion: In “Poverty, By America,” sociologist Matthew Desmond examines the structural forces that lead to poverty — many of which are by design, writes law professor Sheryll Cashin politico.com/news/magazine/…

Had no idea how much health (especially hospitals) contributed to climate change - or what some hospitals are doing to change that. My latest in POLITICO Magazine politico.com/news/magazine/…

Excellent policy and law from Arkansas AG Tim Griffin: Opinion | Nobody Is Matching Your Political Donation - POLITICO politico.com/news/magazine/…

That email promising a 2X, 4X or 750% match on your political donation? It's a scam, says AK AG Tim Griffin: politico.com/news/magazine/… #Politics #2024PresidentialElection POLITICO POLITICO Magazine

Opinion: Politicians, political parties and PACs are deceiving unsuspecting victims who believe in our political system by fundraising with emails and texts that falsely promise to “match” a contribution, writes Attorney General Tim Griffin. politico.com/news/magazine/…

Sixty years ago this week, JFK visited his ancestral home during a four-day trip to Ireland. A remarkable presidential homecoming many Irish still remember and commemorate. politico.com/newsletters/we…

My Letter From Israel: The Crisis Is Just Getting Started, in ⁦POLITICO⁩ politico.com/news/magazine/…

I've got a new piece up at POLITICO about the pharma company lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of allowing Medicare to negotiate over drug prices. They are asking the courts "not to apply existing law, but to change it." politico.com/news/magazine/…

Fiona Hill on what's really at stake in Ukraine, and why lawmakers are dragging their feet: politico.com/news/magazine/…

Is Vladimir Putin winning? Veteran Russia watcher Fiona Hill says, "He’s about to. And it's on us." A Q&A with a deeply alarmed Hill as Washington reaches an inflection point on the war in Ukraine 👇 politico.com/news/magazine/…

Donald Trump’s attack on Kamala Harris misunderstands Black identity in America. Deputy Editor Teresa Wiltz explains: politico.com/news/magazine/…

“I’m worried it will fracture. … Not having the right leader, it could totally fall apart.” Is There a Future for MAGA After Trump? politi.co/4fanOf3 via POLITICO

A white nationalist has been working for the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania for five months —until he was fired after Politico asked questions politico.com/news/magazine/…

A key Trump staffer was fired for being a white nationalist. Luke Meyer was Trump’s regional field director for western Pennsylvania. Online, he was the white nationalist Alberto Barbarossa. politico.com/news/magazine/…

The "hardware and software" of Orbán’s power grab program: "The populist hardware consists of hijacked institutions. The software is made up of populist discourses and narratives that are used to create and enlist the consent of the ruled." politico.com/news/magazine/…

New this morning for @POLITICO and POLITICO Magazine. tinyurl.com/59y6ds3w