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World

Trump Now Says He Accepts U.S. Intelligence Reports on Russian Election Meddling

By MARK LANDLER and MAGGIE HABERMAN | Jul 17th 2018

Mr. Trump was widely criticized — including by many in his own party — for what had been viewed as his unprecedented deference to the Russian president on Monday.

Unsaying things does not work.

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Opinion

Why Won’t Donald Trump Speak for America?

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Jul 17th 2018

The president lays himself at Vladimir Putin’s feet.

"All that’s clear is that a president who is way out of his depth is getting America into deep trouble."

1. Paul Krugman‏Verified account @paulkrugman Jul 16

This is a sickness much deeper than Trump: a powerful political party, in fact one that holds all the levers of power, that's OK with foreign subversion of US democracy as long as it helps them cut taxes on the rich and deny health care to the poor 3/

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Opinion

I Was a White House Stenographer. Trump Wasn’t a Fan.

By BECK DOREY-STEIN | Jul 17th 2018

If the president is the victim of so much inaccurate reporting, as he claims, why is he so averse to having the facts recorded and transcribed?

The record is stable.
Trump is not.

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Opinion

The Murder-Suicide of the West

By DAVID BROOKS | Jul 16th 2018

Trump forcefully caps off years of deterioration in European-American ties.

Trump is a tantrum.

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Opinion

Trump Shows the World He’s Putin’s Lackey

By MICHELLE GOLDBERG | Jul 17th 2018

Maybe the president is exactly as compromised as he looks.

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Health

Blood Pressure Medicine Is Recalled

By SHEILA KAPLAN | Jul 16th 2018

China is not as careful as they should be.

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World

Obama Speech in South Africa Warns Against Rise of ‘Strongman Politics’

By MATTHEW HAAG | Jul 17th 2018

In his highest-profile speech since leaving office, the former president warned of leaders embracing the “politics of fear, resentment and retrenchment.”

The world needs the warning.

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Magazine

George Soros Bet Big on Liberal Democracy. Now He Fears He Is Losing.

By MICHAEL STEINBERGER | Jul 17th 2018

His enemies paint him as all-powerful, but the billionaire philanthropist believes that his political legacy has never been in greater jeopardy.

Get him some help.

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U.S.

How Republican Lawmakers Responded to Trump’s Russian Meddling Denial

By THE NEW YORK TIMES | Jul 16th 2018

Reports of the president’s comments prompted outcry from some lawmakers, but they were followed by notable silence from others.

I am not a court.
The rules of evidence do not apply.

Paul Krugman‏Verified account @paulkrugman Jul 16

This is a sickness much deeper than Trump: a powerful political party, in fact one that holds all the levers of power, that's OK with foreign subversion of US democracy as long as it helps them cut taxes on the rich and deny health care to the poor 3/

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U.S.

Critics of Trump Have a New Word in Their Vocabulary: Treason

By PETER BAKER | Jul 17th 2018

Never in anyone’s lifetime has a president engendered such a wave of discussion about whether his real loyalty was to a foreign power over his own country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_treason

It is probably not high treason yet.

Trump is an isolationist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolationism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_non-interventionism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_non-interventionism#Non-interventionism_in_the_21st_century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_non-interventionism#Conservative_policies
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