• Masha Gessen argues Trump’s incompetence doesn’t preclude authoritarianism.
• Matt Yglesias reminds that Congress is to protect us from Presidential misconduct.
• It’s difficult to imagine the Ryan Congress impeaching Trump, no matter what.
• Bernie Sanders explains why he despises the “personality contest” of US politics.
• Our prolonged period of relative global peace may be interrupted in the worst way.
• Suki Kim went undercover in North Korea, that deeply troubled state.
• Garry Kasparov says, quite rightly, that AI won’t be in the hands of the few.
• Old Print Article: Old Print Articles: Deadwood, the widow-maker. (1877)
• This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches: Stephen Jay Gould, Alexei Navalny, etc.