One of the most shocking parts of the Mueller report details the widespread efforts by Russian hackers to attack American election infrastructure in 2016. Specifically, the report presents evidence that the Russian intelligence (GRU) targeted state and local election administration systems, that they have infiltrated the computer network of the […] Read more »
Russia Is Targeting Europe’s Elections. So Are Far-Right Copycats.
Less than two weeks before pivotal elections for the European Parliament, a constellation of websites and social media accounts linked to Russia or far-right groups is spreading disinformation, encouraging discord and amplifying distrust in the centrist parties that have governed for decades. European Union investigators, academics and advocacy groups say […] Read more »
America Adrift: How the U.S. Foreign Policy Debate Misses What Voters Really Want Center for American Progress
These days, foreign policy and national security publications are filled with stark warnings about the demise of the U.S.-led rules-based international order—the system of global alliances and institutions that helped advance peace and prosperity for America and its allies in the aftermath of World War II. … To better understand […] Read more »
From ‘Total exoneration!’ to ‘Impeach now!’ – the Mueller report and dueling fact perceptions
Can a country move ahead when its citizens hold dueling facts? Shutterstock David C. Barker, American University School of Public Affairs and Morgan Marietta, University of Massachusetts Lowell The Mueller report was supposed to settle, once and for all, the controversy over whether the Trump team colluded with Russians or […] Read more »
‘Hung jury’: Public remains divided over Mueller probe in new NBC/WSJ poll
Sixty percent of Americans say President Donald Trump has been dishonest in the Russia investigation, while only a third believe the report by special counsel Robert Mueller clears the president of wrongdoing. Still, the public remains divided on impeaching Trump, with nearly half of respondents opposing holding impeachment hearings, and […] Read more »
Why don’t Americans want to impeach Trump?
Americans’ heightened aversion to impeachment — 29 percent favor impeachment in the latest Quinnipiac poll, while 66 percent do not — seems unrelated to a belief in President Trump’s innocence or approval of his performance. In the same poll in which 66 percent oppose impeachment, including 38 percent of Democrats, […] Read more »