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Casey Michel

Casey Michel is the author of Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World. Previous work includes his book American Kleptocracy, and his writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, ThinkProgress, The Atlantic, Politico, and The Washington Post, among others.

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February 25, 2020
Casey Michel
Bernie Sanders’s Dumb Defense of Fidel Castro
The late Cuban strongman was everything the Democratic front-runner has long railed against: a grifting plutocrat from the top one percent.
January 16, 2020
Casey Michel
NATO Is Expanding, and Everyone Is Curiously Silent
Why isn't anyone talking about North Macedonia's accession into America's most important strategic alliance?
January 6, 2020
Casey Michel
Donald Trump’s Quiet Christmas Gift to the Kleptocrats
Despite being under the intense scrutiny of impeachment, the White House remains devoted to enabling foreign graft and corruption.
December 16, 2019
Casey Michel
Meet Trumpworld’s Next Top Ukrainian Grifter
Dmytro Firtash once furnished Rudy Giuliani with the freshest conspiracy-theory dirt on Joe Biden, but now a new shady oligarch is seeking an audience.
November 14, 2019
Casey Michel
Paul Manafort’s Lurid Shadow Hangs Over Impeachment
Long before he took up with Trump, the infernal operator laid the groundwork for the crimes that led us to this point.
November 9, 2019
Casey Michel
Trump Has Squandered the Legacy of the Berlin Wall
Trump's belief that Ukraine is not a "real" country threatens to unwind three decades of post-Cold War gains.
November 1, 2019
Casey Michel
Biden’s Super PAC Buddy Has a Paul Manafort Problem
After the 2016 election and its fallout, it's astonishing that the vice president would team up with someone tied to despotic foreign actors.
October 31, 2019
Casey Michel
Trump’s Claims About Fighting Corruption Are a Joke
This latest defense of his Ukraine scheme flies in the face of years spent enabling the malfeasance of kleptocrats.
October 15, 2019
Casey Michel
The Law That Could Take Down Rudy Giuliani
It's a genuine mystery how the president's aide-de-camp has avoided Paul Manafort's fate.
October 2, 2019
Casey Michel
How the NRA Sold Out America
A new report details the limits of the gun lobby's patriotism when there's Russian moolah on the line.
September 26, 2019
Casey Michel
Rudy Giuliani’s Year of Living Dangerously
The Ukraine scandal that's engulfed the Trump White House is the culmination of the former New York City mayor's Eastern European misadventures.
September 18, 2019
Casey Michel
How to Stop Kleptocrats From Stashing Their Cash in America
New legislation in Congress aims to impose much-needed transparency on anonymous shell companies.
July 14, 2017
Casey Michel
The Donald Trump Jr. Email Scandal Goes Well Beyond Russia
The pop star near the center of the controversy also has deep ties to the regime in Azerbaijan, another source of potential trouble for the Trumps.
December 15, 2015
Casey Michel
The Blogger Who Cried Racism
Jon Carroll published a viral report accusing an Alabama police department of planting drugs on black men. But where's the evidence?
March 5, 2015
Casey Michel
The Crime of the Century
A year after claiming Crimea for Russia, Putin appears to have gotten away with the heist
February 27, 2015
Casey Michel
The Media Is Misinterpreting the ISIS Arrests in Brooklyn
The Islamic State won’t find a foothold in central Asia
February 6, 2015
Casey Michel
The U.S. Should Arm Ukraine—But Not Because This War Is Winnable
February 3, 2015
Casey Michel
The Obama Administration Is Gifting War Machines to a Murderous Dictator
January 22, 2015
Casey Michel
This Professor Refuses to Disclose Her Work for an Autocratic Regime. Here's What Happened When I Confronted Her.
January 19, 2015
Casey Michel
Even Vladimir Putin's Authoritarian Allies Are Fed Up With Russia's Crumbling Economy

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