Alexander Nazaryan
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Stoned, woke and almost out of bed: 'Chapo Trap House' does revolution, Brooklyn hipster style
Do take a listen to "Chapo Trap House," the ostentatiously incoherent, overweeningly sarcastic podcast on which “The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason" is based.
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Think tanks reconsider Saudi support amid Khashoggi controversy
The push to disassociate from Saudi Arabia has proven complex for Washington’s most prominent public policy institutions.
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If there's a 'Kavanaugh bounce' in the midterms, which direction will it go?
What we know so far about impact of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court on midterm voters.
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How Kavanaugh could threaten the hard-won legitimacy of the Roberts court
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has labored for the past 13 years to keep the judiciary branch a sacrosanct institution, able to rule on the most contentious issues of the day — guns, abortion, health care — without succumbing to the vitriol of presidential and congressional politics. How would
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Confusion, chaos hit Capitol Hill in wake of FBI report on Kavanaugh
As the full Senate vote on Brett Kavanaugh nears, the public rancor that has surrounded his nomination shows no sign of abating.
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In extraordinary maneuver, Jeff Flake halts Brett Kavanaugh's march to Supreme Court
Sen. Flake said he wouldn't vote to confirm Kavanaugh unless the FBI investigated the sexual assault allegations against him.
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Angry and embittered, Kavanaugh casts nomination in partisan terms
Rebutting Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations, Brett Kavanaugh cast himself as the victim, Alexander Nazaryan writes.
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Ford describes assault in unwavering testimony
In gripping testimony, Christine Blasey Ford tells the Senate Judiciary Committee about Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged attempt to rape her.
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Fiona Hill, Trump's top expert on Russia, is quietly shaping a tougher U.S. policy
For nearly two decades, British-American scholar Fiona Hill has followed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s trajectory.
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Capitol Hill protests mark rising wave of Kavanaugh opposition
Three days after Mitch McConnell vowed to “plow right through” the opposition to Brett Kavanaugh and install him on the Supreme Court, the halls of Congress filled with protesters invigorated by the latest allegations against the nominee.
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Bannon’s ‘Trump @ War’ is a call to arms to keep Congress safe from Democrats
His film is Bannon’s latest effort to keep Trump in the Oval Office — and himself at the volcanic core of national affairs.
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Republican men — and not a single GOP woman — will be Christine Blasey Ford's interrogators on the Senate Judiciary Committee
Next week, Christine Blasey Ford will likely face intense questioning from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee about the truthfulness of her accusations against Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court nominee, who she says attempted to rape her during a party in the 1980s. Her turn on Capitol Hill
Yahoo NewsKavanaugh’s downfall, once impossible, now seems very possible
A nomination that appeared to be a sure thing for President Trump and the GOP is now barely hanging on.
Yahoo NewsBrett Kavanaugh wants to do away with legal abortion. He told us so.
The Supreme Court nominee has given strong hints that if he’s confirmed, “states will have free rein to eliminate abortion access via increasingly draconian laws.”
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Trump administration rushes to lease federal lands
Critics say the move is being made with minimal public input and little consideration for ecological preservation.
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Can the Democrats do to Brett Kavanaugh what they did to Robert Bork?
It would be difficult, but not impossible, to derail the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.
Yahoo NewsAt National Cathedral, former presidents pay homage as McCain takes his place in history
Former presidents sat in the front pews for a funeral service that brought together dignitaries from both parties.
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The agency created to protect elections is broken
The mission of the Election Assistance Commission — the nation’s first federal agency created to oversee elections at every level of government — has never been clear, and more than 15 years later, critics say the agency has succumbed to the whims of partisan operatives.
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White House blocks bill that would protect elections
A bill that would have significantly bolstered the nation’s electoral security has been held up in the Senate at the behest of the White House, which expressed its displeasure with the proposed legislation.
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The secret Soviet organization that explains what Russia is doing today
Russian attempts to dupe, confuse or weaken the West date back at least to the early decades of the 20th century. An outfit called the Cheka charted a course that’s still being followed today.
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Fan Fictions: On Donald Trump’s summer reading list, books celebrating Donald Trump
If Donald Trump read books, it would be these by some of his most sycophantic supporters, including Sean Spicer and Jeanine Pirro.
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Dinesh D'Souza's tireless quest to 'own the libs'
Convicted of making illegal campaign contributions under Obama, pardoned by Trump, the conservative provocateur is out with his most provocative project yet, a film that attempts to link the Democratic Party to Mussolini and Hitler.
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The dinosaur that ate Ryan Zinke
The interior secretary’s tweet about a dinosaur skull crystalized a criticism of his tenure, namely that he celebrates his image as a conservationist frontiersman even as he gives away lands rich with fossils and archeological treasures to business concerns.
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Pompeo defends Trump foreign policy in hearing, even if he can’t say what it is
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s job at a Senate hearing on Wednesday afternoon was to paint the Trump administration’s foreign policy toward Russia, North Korea, Syria and the rest of the world as coherent and consistent. That was no easy task.
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Democrats sound alarm over Trump's plan to slash the federal government
Sen. Claire McCaskill noted that the plan originated with the conservative Heritage Foundation, and demanded more details.
