Stevenson’s army, August 30

I often warn students that they can’t write a good paper on Congress using Google because all the significant inside information is behind paywalls that only lobbyists can afford.  There’s more proof of that in Ben Smith’s column about the purchase of Politico for $1 billion [!] by Axel Springer. He notes that half Politico’s revenue comes from Politico Pro newsletters that cost $10K or more a year.

– Politico has its own scoop today — details of what DOD officials knew of the anticipated mass casualty event in Kabul.

– NYT says US fired counter-rocket munitions against ISIS-K attacks.

– WSJ says North Korea has restarted a reactor.

– France wants UN to establish safe zone around Kabul airport.

– Dan Drezner says Congress doesn’t care much about foreign policy.

My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I plan to republish here. To get Stevenson’s army by email, send a blank email (no subject or text in the body) to stevensons-army+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You’ll get an email confirming your join request. Click “Join This Group” and follow the instructions to join. Once you have joined, you can adjust your email delivery preferences (if you want every email or a digest of the emails).