Greg Dworkin

WaPo:

Putin’s KGB past didn’t help him with intelligence on Ukraine

The botched invasion suggests that—as happens with many authoritarians—his analysts told him what he wanted to hear

Putin’s present problems can be reduced to two main options: Either he ignored the advice of his national security and intelligence advisers; or, as with so many authoritarian leaders before him, he set the conditions under which his subordinates only told him w

Jamelle Bouie/NY times:

To Overturn Trump, We Need to Overturn White Supremacy

For that to happen, some monuments — and the historical myths they supported — are going to have to come down.

Another way to put this observation is that police brutality, the proximate cause of these protests, is simply an acute instance of the many ways in which the lives of black Americans (and other groups) are degraded and devalued.

It’s remarkable that more than 150 years after the Civil War ended, Republicans are still fighting a rearguard action.

Roll Call:

Senate chairman vows fight over Confederacy issue

Inhofe plans to water down language requiring name change for bases honoring Confederate generals

Oklahoma Republican James M.