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Ahn Young-joon / AP Trump Can't Afford to Admit His Failures With North Korea
The administration has no choice now but to carry on the pretense that the negotiations are proceeding favorably.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Three Crises Sparked by Trump's Withdrawal From the Iran Deal
The seriousness of the problems caused by the president's abrupt exit will be impossible for him to ignore.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Every Culture Appropriates
The question is less whether a dress or an idea is borrowed, than the uses to which it’s then put.
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Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters Competing Visions of Islam Will Shape Europe in the 21st Century
Akbar Ahmed’s new book deals with how migration is reshaping the continent, and whether leaders can cope.
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Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters Michelle Wolf Does Unto the White House as It Has Done Unto Others
Controversy at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner underscores that Trump’s staff demands decencies and courtesies that it denies to others.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Kellyanne Conway's Double Standard
A CNN interview this weekend provided a case study in the mendacious ways this White House defends itself.
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Susan Walsh / AP Trump’s Attacks on Comey Collide With Reality
The president’s allies were looking for vindication—but were led astray by their reliance on a closed information system.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Unfit to Command
With the president in an agitated state, preoccupied with his legal troubles, this is no time for war.
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Matt Rourke / AP The Man Who Killed Republican Reform
The retiring House speaker played a huge role in shaping today’s GOP.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Why the GOP Is Making the Midterm Elections All About Impeachment
It may be a counterintuitive gambit, but Republicans are betting it will pay off.
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Harry Harris / AP How the American Two-Party System Became so Divided
Mid-century politicians envisioned ideologically defined parties—but failed to anticipate today’s hyper-polarized environment.
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Bernadett Szabo / Reuters The Risks to Freedom in Hungary
The country’s independent media has largely been stifled. One of its remaining voices explains what it’s like to try to hold an aspiring strongman to account.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump's Legal Threats Backfire
The president is used to getting his way by bluster and intimidation, but the strategy that once worked for him is now working against him.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters What Trump's Choice of Bolton Reveals
The president is surrounding himself with familiar faces from his favorite cable-news network—but may not find in them what he seeks.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Firing McCabe Is Just the Start
Congressional Republicans and conservative pundits had the chance to signal to Trump that his attacks on law enforcement are unacceptable—but they sent the opposite message.
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Jorge Silva / Reuters The Words Trump Refuses to Speak
For the most verbally belligerent president in history, Trump’s comments about Russia’s nerve-agent attack have been conspicuously weak.
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Hannah McKay / Reuters Why Did Trump Fire Tillerson Now?
The specific timing of the move—following the secretary of state’s split from the president to condemn a Russian attack in the U.K.—raises questions about its motive.
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Peter Nicholls / Reuters Britain Accuses Russia of Poisoning—Trump Won't Agree
A normal White House would have rushed to its ally’s defense by now.
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Michael Sohn / AP What's at Stake as Trump Replaces Gary Cohn
There are three ways the president might turn—and his choice will force clarity about his administration’s direction.
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Jason Lee / Reuters China Is Not a Garden-Variety Dictatorship
It is far more ruthless and determined to protect its power.
