How President Trump Reversed Himself on Afghanistan
How President Trump Reversed Himself on Afghanistan: In his first primetime address to the nation, President Donald Trump reversed his campaign pledge to pull U.S. troops from Afghanistan while laying out his most thorough explanation of his approach to the war....
Woman killed in gruesome elevator accident after giving birth at hospital in Spain
Woman killed in gruesome elevator accident after giving birth at hospital in Spain: A Spanish woman who had just given birth to a baby girl was killed Sunday after a hospital elevator malfunctioned, according to local reports. Rocío Cortes Nunez, 25, was being...
Polls: Voters in three key states Trump won ’embarrassed’ by his conduct as president
Polls: Voters in three key states Trump won ’embarrassed’ by his conduct as president:President Trump is not only losing ground in three key states that helped send him to the White House, but a majority of voters there say he has embarrassed them, new...
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To confront North Korea, talk first and get tough later
Today we are again approaching a crisis with North Korea, and again the cause is its nuclear program. A war in 1994 would have been terrible, but we were able to avoid it with diplomacy (the Agreed Framework, from which the United States and North Korea withdrew in...
Reducing Inequality in the Trump Era
In a lot of ways, 2016 was a big year for reducing inequality. Five states raised their minimum wage through citizen-led ballot initiatives. A job-killing free trade agreement, the TPP, was blocked as a result of massive public demonstrations against it. More...
Global economic forces conspire to stymie U.S. manufacturing
One factor contributing to the rise of populist sentiment in the United States has been the decline in manufacturing jobs, from 17 million in 2000 to 11 million in 2010, with a small bounce-back since then. President-elect Trump promises to bring manufacturing jobs...
What’s new and what’s not in the U.N. resolution on Israeli settlements
The long-anticipated coda of the Obama-Netanyahu relationship did not disappoint in its drama: With a U.S. abstention, Ambassador Samantha Power allowed U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334 on Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to pass 14 votes...
The Donald and nukes, again
During the course of the presidential campaign, Donald Trump said a number of things about nuclear weapons that gave the impression that he knows little about U.S. nuclear forces or the consequences of nuclear use. He confirmed that impression with a tweet sent this...
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