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Since the surprise announcement earlier this month of Bill and Melinda Gates’s impending divorce, dirt has been piling up on one side. During the brain-meltingly rich couple’s 27-year marriage, Bill “had a reputation for questionable behavior,” as one New York Times headline put it. His alleged transgressions included an extramarital affair, romantically pursuing subordinates, and maintaining warm relationships with both his money manager and Jeffrey Epstein, even after both had been accused of... Читать дальше...

Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews has made a career out of a certain image of American politics. It’s a nostalgic vision of the heyday of bare-knuckled ward bosses in and around city halls and orotund lords of patronage on Capitol Hill, of brash Irish-American presidents and speakers of the house lofting insults at one another in the press before adjourning for fraternal meals and drinks long into the D.C. evening. It’s a brand of political combat as glorified stag-bonding, at once relentlessly ambitious and cheerfully transactional. Читать дальше...

This Friday at 10 a.m., two years after he should have done so, former White House counsel Don McGahn will testify before the House Judiciary Committee (in a “closed, transcribed interview,” as one source described it to me). McGahn, as you may recall from his cameos in the Mueller Report, is supposedly sitting on firsthand eyewitness accounts of Donald Trump obstructing justice. At last, he’ll be forced to spill some beans.

Even within the walls of the World Trade Organization, the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement, or TRIPS, is a paradox and a freak: a temple to monopoly inside the church of free trade.