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Partisan Problems:  A new report on the Twitter activity of Russian trolls illustrates the dangers of President Trump’s divisive rhetoric, writes Conor Friedersdorf. As Germany’s center-left Social Democratic Party begins negotiations to form a coalition with Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc, lawmakers must weigh a choice between conceding some party priorities and leaving room for the far right to rise. And in Kenya, communities are still reeling from last fall’s divisive election season, in which at least 92 opposition supporters were allegedly killed by police. Here’s one family’s story.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo on the White House’s North Korea strategy, stating that the administration’s goal is to slow the country’s nuclear program rather than to fully roll it back (as

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