Opinion Sheldon Whitehouse was right all along: The Supreme Court is corrupt - "Whitehouse explained that dark-money groups such as the Federalist Society, led for years by Leonard Leo, put together a list of acceptable high court nominees from which President Donald Trump picked three justices. A closely aligned entity, the Judicial Crisis Network, spent millions to help get the justices confirmed (while donating to Senate Republicans to guarantee their support). Leo and others in dark-money groups filed amicus briefs to advance their agenda. And then Leo set up cozy connections between the billionaire donors and the justices for 'hospitality' from their “friends.” Leo arranged Alito’s fishing jaunt and helped set up Thomas with billionaire Harlan Crow. If you put together billionaires, dark money and 'phony front groups,' you wind up in a 'whole new world,' he argued."
Opinion Putin looked into the abyss Saturday — and blinked - "The speed with which Putin backed down suggests that his sense of vulnerability might be higher even than analysts believed. Putin might have saved his regime Saturday, but this day will be remembered as part of the unraveling of Russia as a great power — which will be Putin’s true legacy."
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Opinion America’s Asian allies are quietly joining forces to confront China - "'The Chinese have basically now, through a process of confrontation, helped us organize our allies on multiple layers,' U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel told me in an interview. 'Xi does not get enough credit for all the work he has done to contain China, and I’m willing to give it to him.'"
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