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All tagged Trump
His behavior conforms to what behavioral economists call altruistic sanctioning, which appears to be important to open, democratic societies.
Trump is right to point out China’s anti-competitive trade practices, but starting a trade war is not the way to get what he wants.
That’s what the head of US Cyber Command told lawmakers this week. Plus: Trump flops around on guns, and the White House descends into chaos.
Evidence mounts for Rohingya genocide in Myanmar. Plus: in the face of food and supply shortages, Venezuela’s unrest grows, and Zimbabwe’s new president reverses Mugabe’s policy on land-leasing to white farmers.
There is some movement toward resolution behind the scenes, though a deal is still very much out of reach.
A week of talks on immigration started hopefully enough, but was thrown into chaos when Trump was presented with a bipartisan solution. Plus: a federal judge temporarily blocks the White House’s move against DACA.
The move comes after high-level talks between the two countries, and may signal a relief of tension after many terrifying months. Plus: the US tries to grandstand about Iran’s protests, and fails.
With Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff forces a rift between President Trump and Steve Bannon, the two pillars of American ultra-nationalism.
Republicans are poised to deliver "tax reform" for the first time in 30 years, but what's actually in the bill?
On Tuesday, FCC chair Ajit Pai released his plan to repeal net neutrality, reigniting a contentious, and not necessarily left-right, debate. Plus: a horrific terrorist attack in Egypt, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gets two acting directors.
Ralph Northam's big win in the Virginia gubernatorial race was just the first in a string of victories for Democrats in 2017, who may finally have found a way forward after months of squabbling.
Top lawyers for Facebook, Twitter, and Google were on Capitol Hill this week to testify about the Russian propaganda efforts on their sites during the 2016 election. What happens next will transform American politics.
The charges against Manafort and his assistant Rick Gates are the first resulting from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's wide-ranging investigation into the links between Trump's campaign and Russian intelligence.
A new report saying that pollution is linked to millions of deaths each year arrives as the EPA under Scott Pruitt works to roll back environmental regulations.
A bipartisan bill with an impressive list of sponsors (24 senators!) would reinstate the federal subsidies Trump just cut and provide greater flexibility for states and businesses.
A double move by Trump on Thursday may sabotage the ACA, just three weeks before open enrollment.
Trump's EPA pulls the plug on the Clean Power Plan (but it won't bring coal back), Puerto Rico deals with tweetstorms as it tries to recover from Hurricane Maria, and North Korea discovers what it had long feared through cyber espionage.
Puerto Ricans are mostly without electricity and water after Hurricane Maria, North Korea claims the US has declared war, and Republicans turn to tax reform after a last-ditch effort at healthcare fails. PLUS: the Russia investigation turns to social media.
Hurricane Maria annihilates Puerto Rico’s power grid, Donald Trump delivers a bellicose, nationalistic address to the UN General Assembly, and Mueller turns the screws on former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort. PLUS: a new healthcare bill gains momentum in the Senate.
