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Messaging Strategy: Roger Stone, President Trump’s longtime friend and confidant, told the House Intelligence Committee last year that he never communicated directly with WikiLeaks. But screenshots obtained by The Atlantic reveal that Stone exchanged private Twitter messages with the radical-transparency group on October 13, 2016. Here’s what the messages said.
The Communist Party has proposed a change to China’s constitution: which could allow President Xi Jinping to stay in office for life. The procedural bid for power parallels moves made by strongmen in Turkey and Venezuela, and contradicts that Xi’s leadership would mark a more democratic era in China. The country has been growing more repressive even as its economy gets stronger. Now it’s entering
