Parents of young children, or elementary school teachers, often run into difficulties when trying to explain complex, abstract terms or concepts to the children. Fortunately, the Trump administration offers many examples parents and teachers may use to demonstrate the meaning of the term “hypocrisy.”

Here is one of these many examples on offer:

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Editor’s Note: Ten years on, Russia’s 2016 interference operation on behalf of Trump, and the Trump administration’s dismantlement of all the U.S. federal government organs dedicated to tracking and analyzing state-sponsored efforts to interfere in U.S. institutions, elections, and society,* offer two lessons, Julia Cutler writes. First, a foreign intervention pays off most durably and reliably when its beneficiary has every incentive to hide the intervention sponsor’s hand.

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When supporters of the Trump administration say that oil shipping through the Gulf is “back to normal,” they are referring to a visible and easily quantifiable measure: the number of barrels moving through the Strait of Hormuz.

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Editor’s note: The is the second of a three-part series of articles examining the AfD. You can read the first article, analyzing the AfD’s approach to Russia, here. The third article, comparing the economic programs of the AfD, France’s RN, and Reform UK, will be published on Thursday.

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On 22 September, The New York Times reported, citing seventeen German and foreign officials, that Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government is preparing to restrict the access of Saxony-Anhalt’s next government to classified material, should the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) take power there. The AfD won 43.8 percent of the vote there on 6 September, three seats short of a majority, and is looking for the votes to put its candidate in office.

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What do the water system in Flint, Michigan, the electrical grid in Puerto Rico and your search engine have in common? They are all critical infrastructure – systems essential to everyday life.

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