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About the moments

Maximilian Forte (Concordia): The New Victorianism. Robert Kowalenko (Witwatersrand): Thabo Mbeki, Postmodernism, and the Consequences. Jen Kirby on the Olympics in the age of ISIS. AP sources: Paul Manafort tied to undisclosed foreign lobbying. Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani on 7 questions that must not go unanswered about Trump, the GOP, and Russia: His campaign manager’s ties to pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians are far from the only concern. Josh Marshall goes into the alt-Left, alt-Right Russian alt-universe. Women talk about the moments they felt most powerful. The introduction to How Armies Respond to Revolutions and Why by Zoltan Barany. A radioactive Cold War military base will soon emerge from Greenland’s melting ice: They thought the frozen earth would keep it safely hidden — they were wrong.

From Vox, Donald Trump’s once-masterful “attention at any cost” strategy has turned into a disaster; and the media vs. Donald Trump: Why the press feels so free to criticize the Republican nominee. Yes, the media is weighted against Trump — because he mostly spouts lies. Trump’s campaign changes represent the triumph of the right-wing echo chamber: The party’s leader is responding to campaign problems by retreating further into it, to repeat all the same mistakes that got him to this point in the first place.