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WASHINGTON – Tech billionaire Elon Musk, speaking at a Trump celebration rally at Washington’s Capital One Arena, appeared to conclude his remarks with a “Roman salute,” a fascist gesture most commonly associated with Nazi Germany, where it was performed alongside the phrase “Heil Hitler.” The gesture continues to be used among far-right groups worldwide, particularly…
When you see a dead body in full color, you grieve it all the more. Peter Jackson’s World War I documentary They Shall Not Grow Old is currently available to stream after making a successful run in theaters earlier this year, and it’s worth seeing even though you will likely be horrified by what you…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a foreign policy community in possession of great power must be in want of peace of mind. Climate change, the Middle East, terrorism, trade, nonproliferation—there is never a shortage of issues and areas for those who work in international relations to fret about. If you were to flip…
Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty) Rudy Giuliani is a busy guy these days. Between crazed television appearances, metaphysical musings, and affixing his chapped old man lips firmly to President Donald Trump’s marshmallow butt, it’s amazing that he’s somehow found time to insert himself smack in the middle of a Romanian political crisis. As first reported by…
At this week’s summit in Helsinki, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed what President Trump described as an “incredible offer” — the Kremlin would give special counsel Robert S. Mueller III access to interviews with Russians indicted after allegedly hacking Democrats in 2016. In return, Russia would be allowed to question certain U.S. officials it suspects of interfering in Russian…
Jessica Lopez packages wire coil nails at the Mid Continent Nail Corp. in Poplar Bluff, Mo. (Brad Vest/For The Washington Post) POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — When a Mexican company bought Mid Continent Nail Corp. in 2012, workers at the factory here feared it was the beginning of the end. Their jobs, they suspected, would be…
Photo: Markus Schreiber (AP) Well, that was a thing. In a wild press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin that, judging from all of the commentators currently yelling about treason, freaked some people the fuck out, President Donald Trump again denied any collusion between his campaign and Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election, and…
President Trump today, at a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, said he didn’t see “any reason” why Russia would interfere in the 2016 election, in response to a question on whether he believed Putin or U.S. intelligence agencies. Our thought bubble from Jonathan Swan in Helsinki: “I just have no words. As press…
There were no shortage of critics of President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which came just days after Trump’s own government indicted 12 Russians for interfering in the 2016 U.S. election, no less. The meeting was just about everything those critics feared it would be. Standing alongside Putin, Trump not only downplayed if…
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held their first formal one-on-one summit Monday in Helsinki and held a news conference afterward. Here is an incomplete transcript of their remarks, with our annotations of the most interesting parts in yellow. It will be updated. PUTIN (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): Thank you so much. Shall we start working?…