Putin’s Press Secretary, America’s Chef-in-Chief, and the Billionaires Who Want to Gut You

A phone call with a dictator, a golf club crawling with violations, a court ruling that buries the planet, and one pope praying for peace.

Good morning! Let’s begin with the man who once promised to end the Ukraine war “in 24 hours.” Instead, Donald Trump emerged from a multi-day silence to announce that he’d just had a “very good” phone call with Vladimir Putin, one that, by his own admission, “will not lead to peace.” In a post that read like it was faxed straight from the Kremlin, Trump…