Before the government shutdown, Donald Trump exceeded a 40% approval rating for the first time since May 2017.
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The strong US economy has improved Donald Trump’s ratings in the last month.
Onlookers watch missiles launch in the 1983 made-for-TV film ‘The Day After.’
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In 1983, a made-for-TV film about the consequences of nuclear war was watched by 100 million people – and became a cultural lightning rod.
Kiara Romero, 20, from Rockville, Md., was one of the million who joined the Women’s March in D.C. and around the world on the anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration to denounce his views and policies.
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The first anniversary of the Women’s March on Washington which took place last weekend in cities in the U.S., Canada and internationally indicates support is growing for a global feminist activism.
Political dressing is all the rage right now, but is it a fashion? A professor of fashion explains.
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Political statements through our clothing are all the rage right now. Could we say this is a new fashion? Prof. of fashion, Henry Navarro explains the recent phenomena.
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How you use the word ‘shithole’ depends on your gender, which paints Trump’s latest misstep as yet another case of toxic masculinity.
This unassuming, snowy town becomes home to the global elite for a few days each year.
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A business and humanities scholar advises the president to pack three novels and a children’s story for his long transatlantic flight to Switzerland aboard Air Force One.
Trump on Jan. 19, 2018.
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What’s unique about this shutdown? It happened under a unified government – and that’s bad news for the GOP.
President Clinton poses with Monica Lewinsky in a Nov. 17, 1995 photo.
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While sexual harassment is still all too common, at least we’re having more open conversations about it, and victims are speaking up on their own terms.
Trump’s first walk to the White House, inauguration day 2017.
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Never mind a “Muslim ban”, Obamacare repeal or a wall on the Mexican border – Donald Trump’s only real agenda is himself.
Senators meet with President Donald Trump to discuss immigration on Jan. 9, 2018.
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If they pass a deal on DACA, it’s a win for both sides of the aisle and thousands of ‘Dreamers,’ but a loss for millions of undocumented immigrants.
After a year in office, Donald Trump has done many things, but has not made America great again.
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The 12 months since Donald Trump unexpectedly took office have proffered constant shocks to the system in which the occupants of the White House remind us they are not playing by the rules.
The Turnbull government appears determined to intensify Australian involvement in the Asia-Pacific’s strategic rivalries.
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The underlying implication of Malcolm Turnbull’s Tokyo visit was the interest shared by Japan and Australia to counter the strategic rise of China.
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speak following a meeting on the security and stability on the Korean Peninsula in Vancouver.
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China is succeeding in a high-stakes poker game on the Korean Peninsula. Did Canada and the U.S. just play into Chinese hands?
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Jeff Flake called the US president’s lies and attacks on the media a danger to democracy, but it’s unlikely to change anyone’s mind.
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Why experts don’t always win the argument.
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Never mind three more years – some people think just one might be a tall order.
DeWanda Wise in She’s Gotta Have it on Netflix.
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Spike Lee’s updated his breakthrough movie, She’s Gotta Have It, and made a more political drama for the times.
US President Donald Trump is trying to head off Xi Jinping’s trade deals in East Asia.
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Trump is trying to shape the US as a power in Asia and block China in the process, using techniques familiar to Beijing.
The fear and distress caused by a false missile alarm last week on Jan. 13 in Hawaii is part of the 125 year legacy of American occupation. Here, cars drive past a highway sign: “Missile alert in error. There is no threat” on the H-1 Freeway in Honolulu.
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The fear and distress caused by a false missile alarm last week in Hawaii is part of the 125- year legacy of American occupation.
While some are declaring that democracy has had its day, others see this as a time to develop more truly democratic ways of living.
Gustav Klimt, Death and Life, 1910
Is it really time to eulogise democracy, or are we rather on the cusp of a new phase in its long and varied life?