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Twitter was special. But it's time to leave
Tweets were always short-lived. Turns out Twitter was too.
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Matt Tait
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Russia is spying on Telegram chats in occupied Ukrainian regions. Here's how.
Thanks to a Ukrainian in occupied Kherson, we now know how Russian occupiers are using Telegram to surveil Ukrainians — and how dangerous its design…
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Donald Trump indictment: what are the classified documents?
A running update on information in the indictment as I go through it
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Long Live the King?
What's the point of the British Monarchy anyway?
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The Georgia Indictment
A quick summary
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Pentagon Leaks: What's the Damage?
Not all the leaks are equally bad, and only by chance we avoided much worse
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Mint the Coin
And why the President's 14th Amendment Plan is the wrong tool for the job
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The House has No Members and the Bootstrapping of Power
Over at Dog Shirt Daily—the awfully named, but otherwise great daily publication by Ben Wittes—Ben has a really interesting question that he proceeds…
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What sentence might Trump get, if found guilty?
It'd be real prison time. But stop saying "400 years".
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There is No Norm against Prosecuting Former Presidents in the United States
In the past week, many supporters of former President Trump have made an argument in his defense that his indictment violates the norm against…
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Unofficial meetings with Russian officials isn't diplomacy—it's a trap
Why former U.S. officials holding secret talks with Russian officials is actively unhelpful—and the trap they fell into by doing it
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The war will end with Diplomacy. But here's why it won't be soon.
Peace in this war isn't close. And premature calls for diplomacy push it further away. Instead, the West needs to provide credible public commitments to…
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