“Over the past few months I have been working with a company based in Russia regarding the development of a Trump Tower-Moscow project in Moscow City.” Michael Cohen, a top Trump Organization executive (and the ultimate Trump confidante) asked Putin aide for help on business deal during the campaign.

+ President Trump said that, since he pardoned Joe Arpaio during Harvey, he “assumed the ratings would be far higher than they would be normally.” Nathan Robinson wonders: Do people actually know just how evil Joe Arpaio is?

+ You’re probably shocked that the people on the other side of the political aisle don’t see things like you do. That’s partly because they are not seeing the same things at all. With some great data from the MIT Media Lab, here’s a look at our left-right media divide told through Charlottesville.