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Jared Kushner Is the Face of American Oligarchy

On Nov. 16, 2025, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky listened on speakerphone to an unfamiliar voice. This new interlocutor, speaking with a reedy...

28.08.2026 20

Foreign Policy

Casey Michel

We Actually Know Exactly How We Can Address Trump’s Corruption Spree

This book excerpt is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. For most of human history, trying to identify an oligarchy has been...

06.08.2026 20

Talking Points Memo

Casey Michel

How Donald Trump Made the World Safe for Kleptocrats

The first evidence of the sledgehammer the new Trump administration would take to America’s anti-corruption policies came just two weeks into his...

06.08.2026 10

New Republic

Casey Michel

The CIA’s First Failed Coup

For decades, there was an easy, pat narrative that developed about the West’s first covert operations to topple a communist regime. It goes...

10.07.2026 30

Foreign Policy

Casey Michel

Jared Kushner Helped Make This Mess in Iran While Making a Mess of Money

It was clear, almost from the start, that President Donald Trump’s unilateral decision to launch a war against Iran would be his greatest strategic...

23.06.2026 20

Mother Jones

Casey Michel

Republicans Are Dismantling a Key Tool in the War Against Kleptocrats

For the past 18 months, nearly all of the efforts to demolish America’s anti-corruption architecture have come from one source: the White House....

22.06.2026 20

New Republic

Casey Michel

The Epstein Scandal Reveals the Dark Side of Bipartisanship

Among the most staggering revelations in the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein document release are the details that have recently emerged about the treacly...

24.02.2026 20

New Republic

Casey Michel

The United States Is Once Again Canada’s Biggest Threat

04.02.2026 30

Foreign Policy

Casey Michel

Annexing Greenland Would Be a Strategic Catastrophe

07.01.2026 30

Foreign Policy

Casey Michel

Putin Will Never Compromise on Ukraine

12.11.2025 30

Foreign Policy

Casey Michel

Trump Opens the White House Doors to Foreign Regimes and Their Dirty Money

07.10.2025 20

The Nation

Casey Michel

The Anticorruption Angle

Democrats Should Build a Foreign Policy Around Fighting Graft

08.08.2025 40

Foreign Affairs

Casey Michel