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Trump Or Trudeau, Deconstructing A False Choice

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Toronto
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Toronto Rick Madonik

OTTAWA — One has brown hair, the other orange. One is effortlessly bilingual, the other horrifies editors of the Oxford English Dictionary. One openly calls himself a feminist, the other grabs female genitals. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes for a tempting contrast with President Trump. He seems like the picture of serene and right-thinking liberal mindedness compared with all of the United States’ most cartoonishly boorish elements. As a Canadian, I’m not surprised that the American news media and the Internet are saturated by swooning profiles. The Rolling Stone cover story “Why Can’t He Be Our President” was only […]

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Trump’s New Policies Are A Hit (They Are Obama’s)

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Presidents Trump and Obama Marianique Santos/Planet Pix/ZUMA

-OpEd- WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump appears to have found himself a new national security adviser. His name is Barack Obama. Recent days have brought evidence of two foreign policy successes for the Trump administration: On Friday, a top State Department official who has served in the Obama and Trump administrations announced that gains against the so-called Islamic State have picked up sharply and that the militants have lost 78% of their territory in Iraq and 58% in Syria. The Washington Post“s headline (which the White House circulated in an email): “Under Trump, gains against ISIS have dramatically accelerated.” Then, […]

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Flying Blind, Trump’s Foreign Policy Keeps Allies Guessing

Aboard the USS Carl Vinson on March 19
Aboard the USS Carl Vinson on March 19 Sean M. Castellano/U.S. Navy/ZUMA

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As he nears his 100th day in office, President Donald Trump’s efforts to appear decisive and unequivocal in his responses to fast-moving global crises have been undercut by a series of confusing and conflicting messages from within his administration. Over the past two weeks, policy pronouncements from senior Trump aides have often been at odds with one another — such as whether Syrian President Bashar Assad must leave power as part of a negotiated resolution to end that nation’s civil war. In other cases, formal White House written statements have conflicted with those from government agencies, even […]

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Trump Flexes Deal-Making Muscles On Foreign Front

U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House on March 31
U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House on March 31 Olivier Douliery/CNP/ZUMA

-Analysis- Donald Trump is already discovering the old dictum that presidents are elected on domestic policy but eventually take refuge in foreign policy. With his own Republican party bickering and blocking his healthcare proposal in Congress, Trump turns this week to welcoming foreign leaders with whom he can attempt his powers of persuasion on a […]

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Working Class Of America Beware, Trump Will Sell You Out

Trump supporters in Palm Beach, Florida
Trump supporters in Palm Beach, Florida Allen Eyestone/Palm Beach Post via ZUMA

-OpEd- WASHINGTON — For many months on the campaign trail, Donald Trump sent a clear message about his fellow Republicans: Ideologically, I’m not one of them. This wasn’t just true on trade, but also on safety-net programs that protect, among others, low-income whites. President Trump, he said, won’t let people die in the streets and […]

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How Merkel’s Lectures To Thin-Skinned Trump Can Backfire

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Lesson number Einz Kay Nietfeld/DPA/ZUMA

-Analysis- BERLIN — On Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Donald Trump released a joint statement regarding their first phone call earlier that day. The statement about their 45-minute conversation noted — in the neutral tone common to all statements of this kind — that a wide range of topics were discussed: NATO, […]

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Trump Presidency Begins, 27 Front Pages From Around The World

The world watches Trump take the oath.
The world watches Trump take the oath. Nancy Siesel via ZUMA

Newspapers across the globe featured a defiant, ‘America First’ Donald Trump taking over the White House.

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America Can’t Stop Talking About Us, A View From Moscow

Putin and Trump nesting dolls

Russia has become a main theme in the U.S. In part, perhaps, this is a sign of success of the Kremlin’s politics. But both Putin and Trump will have to compromise if they want to change things.

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Melania Trump And Me, Two Slovenians Arrive In Washington

Melania Trump in Cleveland, Ohio, in July
Melania Trump in Cleveland, Ohio, in July Future-Image/ZUMA

WASHINGTON — Melania Trump (or Melania Knavs, as she was called before she married and moved into Trump Tower) will be the only first lady since 1829 to have been born outside the United States. John Quincy Adams’ wife, Louisa Adams, was the last, having been born in England when the U.S. was still a […]

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