75% chance for Democrats to win.

Extraordinary story, ending with many executions.

Fascinating analysis of US foreign policy.

Putting the Mueller investigation and indictments in the context of US government behaviour.

Fascinating.

A strong analogy, but justified.

@natsecHeather writes.

No big surprise that the GRU emerges as the most likely suspect in both cases.

Yep.

Abortion in America in the 1940s.

Good piece by my friends @A_Sloat and Julie Smith.

The German precedent is not very encouraging.

The appalling racism of the American “justice” system.

And this is a good thing.

Fantastic article, applies not only in the USA.

It was the right thing to do. It killed Ford’s re-election chances, but made it possible for him to govern.

From Zora Neal Hurston’s unpublished book.

An optimistic take.

Good explanation.

Being National Security Adviser in the Trump era.

@FiveThirtyEight reports.

Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic story of Syrian refugees in America.

Adjusting for inflation, US has spent 50% more on reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan than on the Marshall plan.

Be afraid.

Well, yes.

Moving account of the expulsion of American diplomats from Moscow, at a human level.

A retired Supreme Court judge writes.

Tremendous piece.

A review of John Bolton’s autobiography, in case you weren’t sufficiently worried.

@NathalieTocci reverses Kissinger.