Volodymyr Zelensky’s candidacy grew out of his role on “Servant of the People,” a popular Ukrainian television series, in which he plays an everyman hero who becomes President.
The country now finds itself in a state of doubled wariness. It must contend with the nature of this new threat. It must also contend with its own nature: its inability to protect its minorities and its proclivity to politicize strife.
Efforts to shine light on government misconduct are not only a matter of moral reckoning; they are necessary to puncture conspiratorial narratives that circulate around the world.
The report details a strange effort by Trump-campaign associates to hack into Clinton and the Democrats’ e-mail accounts that paralleled the Russian plot.
The President’s Administration has enacted the harshest immigration policies in a century, but it has reached the outer limits of what any government can legally do.
Assange, a devoted opponent of what he describes as American imperial power, has welcomed Trump’s degradation of U.S. norms and institutions. Now his fate will be determined by the health of those same institutions.