Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny returned to Russia from Germany on January 17, and he was taken into police custody. Writers Julia Ioffe and Masha […]
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The Trump Presidency And American Democracy | Morning Joe | MSNBC
Writers Anne Applebaum, Masha Gessen and Anand Giridharadas discuss what the country has learned about democracy from four years of the Trump administration. Aired on […]
Continue readingOutrage Is Better Than Anxiety, Says Gessen On Coping With Threats To Democracy | All In | MSNBC
Author Masha Gessen gives Chris Hayes advice about his “whistling-tea-kettle sense of rage”: “As difficult as outrage is to maintain, it is a much more […]
Continue readingTrump Health Aide Pushes Conspiracy Theories | Morning Joe | MSNBC
Michael Caputo, the top communications official at HHS, made accusations that that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection and accused C.D.C. scientists of […]
Continue reading‘Trump Is Showing Us What He Thinks Power Looks Like And Sounds Like’ | Morning Joe | MSNBC
Former CIA analyst Gail Helt along with writers Masha Gessen and Anne Applebaum discuss the president's threat to use active duty U.S. troops to combat […]
Continue readingExperts Warn Democracies Facing Autocracy: Protect Your Institutions | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
Rachel Maddow looks at what has turned out to be prescient advice from Masha Gessen and Timothy Snyder about the necessity of institutions in preserving […]
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