Author: Christian Caryl
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A Grand Bargain With Russia Would Be a Disaster
Throughout the 1980s, and into the early 1990s, the New York real estate developer Donald Trump exchanged fan letters with disgraced ex-president Richard Nixon. In 1982, not quite eight years after Nixon’s resignation, Trump described him as “one of this country’s great men.” Why was Trump such a fan? It might have had something to do with…
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Georgia’s Authoritarian Drift
On a cold mid-December evening in the center of Tbilisi, I met Nika Khotchdava, a 28-year-old disc jockey and manager at the popular techno club Left Bank. As we spoke, Nika and I were surrounded by a vast crowd of tens of thousands of his compatriots, mostly in their 20s and 30s, who had gathered…