From the New Yorker, Adrian Chen on a so-called expert’s uneasy dive into the Trump-Russia frenzy. Josh Marshall on why the Trump/Russia “skeptics” are wrong. Why you shouldn’t be a Russiagate skeptic: What Blake Hounshell misses about the Mueller investigation. Confessions of a Russiagate true believer: Trump isn’t an idiot — the cover-up is likely covering up serious wrongdoing. Matt Ford on a third way to think about Russiagate. The head of a federal commission who has helped U.S. states protect election systems from possible cyber attacks by Russia or others is being replaced at the behest of Republican House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and the White House.
