List of Politics articles
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trump jr Did Trump Jr. Just Tweet Out the Smoking Gun?
The president’s son confirms reporting about the undisclosed June 2016 meeting with Russian representatives in a series of tweets.
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QIONGHAI, CHINA - APRIL 08: (CHINA OUT) Founder of Soros Fund Management LLC George Soros attends the Boao Forum for Asia on April 8, 2013 in Qionghai, Hainan Province of China. State and government leaders from Asia and other regions have been invited to attend three-days of economic meetings for the annual Boao Forum for Asia in Boao, a coastal town in south China's Hainan Province. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images) Hungary’s Orban Targets Soros in New Anti-Immigrant Campaign
The Soros posters are part of an ongoing battle over Hungary’s political future.
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US President Donald Trump (R) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks during their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017. Leaders of the world's top economies will gather from July 7 to 8, 2017 in Germany for likely the stormiest G20 summit in years, with disagreements ranging from wars to climate change and global trade. / AFP PHOTO / SPUTNIK / Mikhail KLIMENTIEV (Photo credit should read MIKHAIL KLIMENTIEV/AFP/Getty Images) Putin Played Trump Like a Fiddle at G20
Why would the Kremlin stop now?
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tillerson Tillerson Tries Hand at Shuttle Diplomacy to End Gulf Feud
The secretary of state will spend this week shoring up Kuwaiti efforts to end the GCC-Qatar showdown.
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CholetSmith Donald Trump Has Made America a Back-Row Kid
The days of other countries looking to the United States for leadership are coming to an end.
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WASHINGTON - JULY 4: Fireworks explode in the sky above the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol, as a U.S. flag is seen in the foreground, while the nation celebrates its 229th birthday July 4, 2005 in Washington, DC. Hundreds of thousands of people took part to celebrate the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in the nation's capital which concluded with the largest fireworks display in the area. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) We Didn’t Kick Britain’s Ass to Be This Kind of Country
Donald Trump’s abandonment of human rights is a repudiation of the country’s founding principles.
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South African President and ruling party African National Congress President Jacob Zuma attends an inter-faith prayer held to pray for him on May 14, 2017 in Durban, South Africa. / AFP PHOTO / RAJESH JANTILAL (Photo credit should read RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP/Getty Images) South Africa’s Zuma May Have Finally Met the Scandal That Brings Him Down
For South Africa’s polygamist, scandal-plagued president, charisma isn’t enough anymore.
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TOPSHOT - A Venezuelan opposition activist is backdropped by a burning barricade during a demonstration against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, on April 24, 2017. Protesters rallied on Monday vowing to block Venezuela's main roads to raise pressure on Maduro after three weeks of deadly unrest that have left 21 people dead. Riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to break up one of the first rallies in eastern Caracas early Monday while other groups were gathering elsewhere, the opposition said. / AFP PHOTO / Ronaldo SCHEMIDT (Photo credit should read RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) -
The emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani speaks during a press conference following a summit on the post-Kadhafi held at the Elysee Palace in Paris on September 1, 2011. France hosts a "Friends of Libya" conference to allow states that stood by during the uprising that ousted Moamer Kadhafi to belatedly back Tripoli's fledgling revolutionary regime. AFP PHOTO / LIONEL BONAVENTURE (Photo credit should read LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP/Getty Images) The Palace Intrigue at the Heart of the Qatar Crisis
The Saudis don’t believe the young emir of Qatar is really running the country — and they’re looking for regime change.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual press conference in Moscow on December 23, 2016. / AFP / Natalia KOLESNIKOVA (Photo credit should read NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images) Congress Must Make Russia Pay for Attacking U.S. Elections
Democrats and Republicans should take decisive action now.
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A Palestinian covered with national flag walks on top of the Israeli controvertial separation wall separating the West Bank city of Abu Dis from east Jerusalem, during clashes with Israeli security forces, on November 2, 2015. AFP HOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI (Photo credit should read AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images) For U.S. Aid to the Palestinians, Don’t Use a Sledgehammer When a Scalpel Would Do
American legislation on aid to the Palestinians could have unintended consequences.
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(From L to R) Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khaled al-Sabah, Qatar's Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani, Oman's Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, Bahrain's Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash and GCC Secretary General Abdul Latif Bin Rashid al-Zayani pose for a group picture during a meeting of the Gulf foreign ministers in the Saudi capital Riyadh, on May 17, 2017, a few days ahead of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit. The summit will be one of three forums held during a visit by US President Donald Trump, who is making Saudi Arabia his first overseas stop since assuming office in January. / AFP PHOTO / FAYEZ NURELDINE (Photo credit should read FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images) There’s No Space for Qatar to Save Face
As the crisis in the Gulf heats up, the impossible demands made by the Saudis and Emiratis virtually ensure that things will get ugly.
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NEW YORK, NY - MAY 16: (L to R) Koro Bessho, Japanese ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and Cho Tae-yul, South Korean Ambassador to the United Nations, arrive a press briefing before a meeting of the United Nations Security Council concerning North Korea, May 16, 2017 in New York City. Following another ballistic missile test launch from North Korea, the UN Security Council once again condemned the isolated nation. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Nikki Haley and Trump’s Doctrine of Diplomatic Chaos
The U.S. envoy to the U.N. concedes that American foreign policy is unpredictable, and that's OK.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 26: Britain's Prime Minister, Theresa May (C-L), greets Arlene Foster, the leader of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (C-R), deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Nigel Dodds (L) and DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson (R) as they arrive in Downing Street on June 26, 2017 in London, England. Mrs Foster has said a deal between her party and the Conservatives to support a minority government is close. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) Britain Has New Northern Ireland Troubles
The British are angry that their new government is forcing them to be reminded of a part of their country they’d prefer to ignore.
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French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN) party, Marine Le Pen (L) and French presidential election candidate for the En Marche ! movement, Emmanuel Macron pose prior to the start of a live brodcast face-to-face televised debate in television studios of French public national television channel France 2, and French private channel TF1 in La Plaine-Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on May 3, 2017 as part of the second round election campaign. Pro-EU centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen face off in a final televised debate on May 3 that will showcase their starkly different visions of France's future ahead of this weekend's presidential election run-off. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Eric FEFERBERG (Photo credit should read ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/Getty Images) Can Nationalists Ever Make Good Liberals?
France's new president is betting that he can bring disaffected voters back into the liberal fold by combining openness with economic growth. What if he just makes them even angrier?
