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Decades ago, in peak Cold War days, Soviet chess whiz Garry Kasparov noticed that his rival, Anatoly Karpov, had a paralyzing fear. Karpov, who was then the world champion, couldn’t bear to make mistakes. He’d avoid even the slightest risk if he thought it might lead to a blunder. So Kasparov exploited Karpov’s conservatism. At the 1985 championship, he drove Karpov into a defensive crouch, beat him, and took the title.

In a shockingly brazen move, President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him $230 million stemming from certain federal actions against him. Representative Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, sent a scalding letter to the White House demanding all internal communications on this shakedown. What struck us was the letter’s forceful indictment of Trump’s corruption and criminality: It denounced Trump’s “blatantly illegal and unconstitutional effort... Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump floated the idea of expanding his extrajudicial strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels to dry land—or as one might refer to it, he pitched declaring war.