
Fred Kaplan
Columnist at Slate
Slate's War Stories columnist; jazz critic; author of A Capital Calamity (a novel), The Bomb, Dark Territory, The Insurgents, 1959, The Wizards of Armageddon
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1 week ago |
slate.com | Fred Kaplan
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. It’s a toss-up which is most remarkable: (a) how much of the federal government Donald Trump has altered, in some cases destroyed, a mere three months into his second presidency; (b) how he’s done so while knowing so little about the subjects at hand; or (c) how he still delusionally seems to think he knows quite a lot.
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1 month ago |
slate.com | Fred Kaplan
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The fact that the Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, found himself included in a Signal chat among President Donald Trump’s top officials, who were discussing the details of an upcoming U.S. military attack on Houthi militias in Yemen, is an even bigger calamity than it may have seemed at first disclosure.
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1 month ago |
slate.com | Fred Kaplan
War Stories Access is important. Slate is offering six months of Slate Plus to current and recently laid-off federal government employees. If you or someone you know has been affected, click here to get six months of Slate Plus free. Maybe President Trump isn’t clamoring to push Ukraine under the bus after all.
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1 month ago |
slate.com | Fred Kaplan
Access is important. Slate is offering six months of Slate Plus to current and recently laid-off federal government employees. If you or someone you know has been affected, click here to get six months of Slate Plus free.
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1 month ago |
slate.com | Fred Kaplan
War Stories Access is important. Slate is offering 6 months of Slate Plus to current and recently laid off federal government employees. If you, or someone you know, has been impacted, click here to get 6 months of Slate Plus free. President Donald Trump’s suspension of intelligence assistance to Ukraine is a very big deal.
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What did Rubio mean about "moving on" from Ukraine? There are a few clues. Meanwhile, Putin is outflanking Trump on all fronts. https://t.co/UAwAoj9i3V via @slate

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