President Donald Trump began his second term with a compelling answer to a media establishment he believed was biased against him: more access, more voices, and more competition. By banning CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House because he objects to their coverage, Trump is abandoning that approach. The answer to a hostile […]
As President Donald Trump was at the White House regaling Chinese President Xi Jinping on a state visit, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was in New York City meeting with diplomatic delegations on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. The regressing U.S.-Canada relationship is the source of Carney’s diplomatic blitz. The Trump administration’s decision […]
TRUMP, THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS, CONGRESS, AND THE WAR. In 2002, in the run-up to the war in Iraq, President George W. Bush went through a long and elaborate process to secure the approval of Congress for going to war. On Oct. 10, 2002, the House passed an Authorization for the Use of Military Force by a […]
