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Kremlin Bounties and Cancel Culture

A story that shouldn’t be buried in the current news flurry.

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Episode Notes

Virginia Heffernan talks to writer Molly McKew, who covers Russian influence and info warfare, about the story of a Russian military intelligence unit offering Taliban-connected militants cash bounties to kill U.S. service members in Afghanistan; denial of the story by the Trump administration; the concept of being at war with Russia; and cancel culture.

Podcast production by Melissa Kaplan. Engineering help from Richard Stanislaw.

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About the Show

A podcast from Slate chronicling Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency and his current administration. Journalists Virginia Heffernan and León Krauze talk to reporters, historians, psychiatrists, and other experts to help explain who this man is and why this is happening, right now, in the United States of America.

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