Trump’s Plan: Make America Corrupt Again

Noah Shachtman Rolling Stone Magazine
While Adams may have been the most immediate beneficiary, he’s not the only one. If you’re a foreign government or a corrupt company trying to turn a public official into your toady, this sends a powerful signal—everything and everyone is up for sale

It Took Trump Only Twenty-Four Days To Sell Out Ukraine

Susan B. Glasser The New Yorker
Trump's first formal phone call with Putin could hardly have been more ominous—a clear sign that the American President who praised Russia’s war on its neighbor as an act of strategic “genius” now intends to force a ceasefire on Putin’s terms.

Waiting

Geneffa Jahan Porter Gulch Review 2024
In Geneffa Jahan's poem "Waiting" the speaker awaits her death as if it were an abusive lover.

It Is a Coup

Carole Cadwalladr The Power
This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong. From the author that first exposed the Cambridge Analytical scandal.