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Gabe Lipton is the Associate Editor of Signal responsible for editorial execution of GZERO Media's written newsletter content. He holds degrees in Government and Economics from Wesleyan University, where he was a member of the international economic honors society, and is studying German in his spare time. At the age of 11, the Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe) confirmed (in person) his take on an important political question of the day, forever sealing his fate as a close observer of global politics. His Spidey powers leave much to be desired.

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Ari Winkleman is the lead designer at Eurasia Group and GZERO Media.
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The top line findings of the Mueller investigation have all but ended one of the biggest scandals in modern US political history, by determining that the Trump campaign did not coordinate with Russian government efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election. While that's certainly good news for American democracy – and for the rule of law – the deeply politicized response to the Mueller findings points to a bigger issue: Americans' trust in all of the most important democratic institutions has been falling for decades. Well, all except one.

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