Month: March 2025

“We may never know why Trump is so perversely loyal to Putin,” and “we don’t know exactly why Musk went all in for Trump and Russia,” @Kasparov63 writes. “But the urgency of their actions I do understand, and it’s a dire warning”:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/putinization-america/681837/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYbKeW7D3mb54LeD1VNtsrRI&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

The debate over J. D. Vance’s Appalachian roots uncovers the region’s complicated history, @AndrewAoyama writes in Time-Travel Thursday.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/02/who-counts-as-a-hillbillyand-who-gets-to-decide/681857/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYY91VHGK-OFavGVubHWc24Q&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Dark money, anonymous companies, and secretive elites with hidden wealth aren’t limited to distant dictatorships on palm-fringed islands. They’re here in America, now—and they’re enabling democracy’s decay, @anneapplebaum and @peterpomeranzev explain:

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/09/kleptocracy-club/680022/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYaUyHnBQoxyDzrWB6IuPCzk&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social