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Mike McQuade How Trump Is Ending the American Era
For all the visible damage the president has done to the nation’s global standing, things are much worse below the surface.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Is It Time for Trump Aides to Resign?
Many presidential appointees face an agonizing choice—leave the president with fewer restraints on his darker impulses, or stay to serve the republic even if it costs their integrity.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters America Is Not Ready for a War in North Korea
If loose words about fire and fury are a mere negotiating tactic, they will not deliver what the United States desires.
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Steven Senne / AP The Downsides of John Kelly's Ascension
It's not a signal that the president is preparing to moderate his White House—it's a signal he's going to the mattresses.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters What Did Trump Accomplish on His First Foreign Trip?
Some firm handshakes, forced smiles, and awkward sword dances. In short, nothing.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Terrible Cost of Trump's Disclosures
The consequences of the president’s reported divulgence of top-secret codeword information to the Russians are only beginning.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Rex Tillerson Doesn't Understand America
His idea that the country’s interests and its values are two separate things—the first mandatory, the second optional—reflects a misreading of the past.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Does Trump Know What to Do After Striking Syria?
Simply blaming Obama won't work as a game plan.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Silence of Rex Tillerson
Sooner or later, someone needs to explain what Trump’s foreign policy is. But the secretary of state does not seem to understand his job.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Rudderless Ship of State
The departure of Michael Flynn leaves the administration with a feuding crew, and no one at the helm.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters A Clarifying Moment in American History
There should be nothing surprising about what Donald Trump has done in his first week—but he has underestimated the resilience of Americans and their institutions.
