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The Four-Million-Dollar Fairway (opens the original)
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The itinerary for Donald Trump’s transatlantic golf trip to Ireland earlier this month carried a price tag exceeding four million dollars for American taxpayers. To justify the immense expense, Trump deployed his familiar repertoire of statecraft theater: high-level summits, bilateral handshakes, and a polished photo-op in Dublin. Yet beneath the veneer of diplomatic protocol lay an unmistakable exercise in presidential self-dealing. By inserting brief, last-minute engagements with Irish Prime M
Who Is Going to Stop Him? (opens the original)
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There was a point in my conversation with Dr on The Weekend Show tonight when the discussion stopped feeling like an interview. We had begun with Donald Trump’s latest genocidal threats at the UN and the increasingly volatile language surrounding Iran, but the conversation kept returning to a more fundamental question: what happens when a political system becomes so accustomed to extraordinary behavior that it stops recognizing it as extraordinary?Dr Lee, a forensic and social psychiatrist, argu
The Gilded Despot (opens the original)
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The spectacle of Donald Trump welcoming Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House laid bare a chilling reality: the fundamental shift of American leadership away from democratic principles and into the warm embrace of global authoritarianism. By systematically shunning long-standing democratic allies in Western Europe, North America, and the Indo-Pacific in favor of brutal strongmen, Trump has made his true governing ambition unmistakably clear. The high-profile visit by President Xi was f
America's China Problem Is Bigger Than Trump (opens the original)
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There was something deeply revealing about Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping. As the Chinese president delivered a carefully measured message about cooperation, stability and the dangers of conflict between two rival powers, Trump appeared repeatedly to struggle to stay awake. The visual contrast was striking, but the significance went far beyond the president’s demeanor. It exposed a much larger reality: the balance between America and China has changed, and Washington can no longer assume
Sánchez’s Warning to the World (opens the original)
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Pedro Sánchez stood before the United Nations with an argument that went well beyond the usual language of diplomatic reassurance. The Spanish prime minister, one of very few leaders who has stood up to Donald Trump, came to describe a world in which the rules established after the Second World War are being steadily weakened, international institutions are being deliberately undermined, and some of the governments with the greatest power to defend the system are increasingly treating it as an i
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