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6 days ago | arcdigital.media | Nicholas Grossman

For tariffs and undermining America’s alliances, Trump and right-wing media’s pitch to their followers is nationalistic. With promises to reverse globalization and restore a mythologized past, they sell a vision of booming domestic manufacturing and repatriated jobs prompting a reflowering of masculinity, calling it “America First.” But that’s just a marketing slogan. The impact of Trump’s hostility to the world isn’t deglobalization; it’s de-Americanization.

3 weeks ago | arcdigital.media | Nicholas Grossman

The Signal leak is the rare Trump scandal the media treated as an actual scandal. In mainstream outlets like the New York Times and CNN, it was the lead story for days, with frequent updates, reporting from various angles, analysis pieces in the news section, and commentary in the opinion section. Other topics have taken the top spot—so much is happening—but “Signalgate” remains an ongoing story with regular reporting, and will have a long tail.

1 month ago | arcdigital.media | Nicholas Grossman

The top issue of the 2016 presidential election, the one that changed Donald Trump from a TV loudmouth to a world historical figure, was information security. Hillary Clinton’s private email server and the mere possibility that classified information might have traversed it dominated media coverage and featured prominently in Trump’s attacks. Then he won the election and became the biggest information security risk in U.S. history.

1 month ago | arcdigital.media | Nicholas Grossman

At last week’s joint press conference in the Oval Office with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump — along with Vice President JD Vance — aped Russian propaganda, lied about the war and berated his guest. The meeting ended acrimoniously, without an agreement on mineral mining rights that was the ostensible reason Zelenskyy traveled to Washington. America’s leaders presented not as peacemakers, let alone as Ukraine supporters, but as advocates for Russia.

2 months ago | arcdigital.media | Nicholas Grossman

NATO is in serious trouble, and with it, the post-Cold War international order. For the first time in the alliance’s 75 year history, its most powerful member is pulling back, and may be effectively pulling out.