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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Broke It. Now He Owns It.
The president withdrew from a flawed deal with Iran, but had no realistic alternative. With that choice comes responsibility for what ensued.
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Wana News Agency / Reuters We’re Just Discovering the Price of Killing Soleimani
Grieving families around the world are already paying it.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Americans Aren’t Rallying to Trump
A president who writes off half the country can’t expect to garner support from a crisis of his own making.
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Leah Millis / Reuters A Gangster in the White House
The president tweeted the name of the presumed whistle-blower in the Ukraine scandal—demonstrating that he is unrepentant and determined to break the law again.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters Trump’s Trade War Was Futile
The president’s clash with Beijing accomplished little—and bodes ill for the growing conservative movement to confront the world’s second superpower.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Trump’s Supporters Are Displaying the Will to Win. Democrats Are Not.
The House Judiciary Committee needs a clearer plan for mobilizing public opinion in support of impeachment.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters All the President’s Crooks
Again and again, Trump’s core supporters have turned out to be criminals.
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Gerald Herbert / AP Heads, Trump Wins. Tails, We All Lose.
Either the president will be elevated above all ordinary law, or future presidents will be hemmed in.
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Shawn Thew / Getty Devin Nunes Is Living in a Fantasyland
The representative’s claims about stories reporting on the Trump administration are part of a universe of untruth.
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Evan Vucci / AP There Will Be No Victory in Dishonor
President Trump’s pardons for three service members accused of war crimes will have lasting consequences.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Nikki Haley’s Audacious Bet
The former South Carolina governor’s new book is a gamble that the future of the Republican Party looks a lot like Trump.
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Timothy D. Easley / AP The Kentucky Governor’s Race Is a Warning to Republicans
The Republican incumbent couldn’t overcome the unpopularity of the party’s agenda. That doesn’t bode well for the GOP in 2020.
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Rendering: Patrick White America After Trump
Even if he loses the next election, the damage he’s done to our political system will be lasting.
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Mark Spowart / Getty This Election Brought Out Canada’s Worst
Almost alone among the advanced democracies, the country has been bypassed by reactionary populism.
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Henry Nichols / Reuters The Window for Brexit May Already Have Closed
Parliament is delaying Johnson’s plan—and generational replacement has undercut its support.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters The U.S. Is Abandoning Its Interests in Brexit
America has a great deal at stake in the negotiations, but has gone entirely AWOL.
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Frances Lenoir / Reuters Johnson Promised Brexit—But May Deliver Engxit
The English nationalism that powers Brexit is repelling the rest of the United Kingdom.
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Toby Melville / Reuters Brexit Will Never Be Over
The British system of government as we know it has collapsed.
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Petr David Josek / AP Mike Pence Failed in His Most Important Duty
The vice president is supposed to be prepared to step into the nation’s highest office if necessary.
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Reuters TV Bill Clinton Had a Strategy. Trump Is Doing the Opposite.
During the Lewinsky scandal, Clinton focused on doing his job. Trump isn’t even pretending.
