Then-candidate Donald Trump hugs his son Donald Trump Jr. at a campaign rally in 2016.
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Presidents past have used this nearly limitless power to halt criminal prosecutions before. What’s to stop Trump?
A scene from ‘Dunkirk,’ a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
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Moviegoers get a hint of why Dunkirk stayed with those who lived through it, but an online archive of survivors’ stories offers more depth.
Sen. Rand Paul speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill.
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It turns out a unified government isn’t enough to get bills passed.
A FARC member waves a white peace flag to commemorate the completion of their disarmament.
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Ending violence is only a first step. Research from Colombian universities sheds light on the role of education in peace-building.
An inmate looks out from his cell in the Security Housing Unit at Corcoran State Prison in California on Oct. 1, 2013.
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Those on the receiving end of Jeff Sessions’ ‘tough on crime’ policies are speaking out from behind bars.
Riot police in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Research shows how politics can easily halt reforms that require time to take effect.
When offered intelligence from a foreign government, Donald Trump Jr. said ‘I love it.’
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Yes, American politics is getting uglier. Here’s why.
A resident of New York City Housing Authority’s Chelsea-Elliot Houses.
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Since the 1990s, the supply of deeply subsidized housing has decreased as the US population and need for housing have increased. Trump’s proposed cuts to HUD won’t help.
What is this man thinking?
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What sort of beliefs made a mass movement succeed?
President Donald Trump.
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Ousting an executive leader from office doesn’t always have the intended effect, as these examples from Central and South America show.
U.S. President Donald Trump is welcomed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the first day of the G-20 summit.
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Merkel’s popularity at home and on the global stage continues to grow as she runs for a fourth term as chancellor.
Sheen Ibrahim, Kurdish fighter from the People’s Protection Units (YPG), walks together with other YPG fighters in Raqqa, Syria, June 16, 2017.
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The US is doing so with increasing frequency around the world – most recently with Kurdish fighters in Syria. A scholar explains what can go wrong, and why this approach is likely to continue.
Kim Jong-un and scientists applaud after the successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14.
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The international community has been trying to stop North Korea from developing long-range missiles for decades. So how did North Korea get one?
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit
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A foreign policy expert takes a look at how the high-profile exchange between the U.S. and Russian leaders went down.
An anti-U.S. protest in Yemen during Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia.
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Congress is trying to curb the president’s ties to human rights abusers, harkening back to landmark legislation of the 1970s.
Krasinski Square in Warsaw, Poland just before Trump’s speech.
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A historian who studies Poland witnesses the president’s visit to Warsaw, and casts a skeptical eye at the crowd that took in the president’s speech.
People watch news of missile test on a public TV screen in North Korea.
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North and South Korea explained in four questions and answers.
Supporters of Jakarta’s former Governor Basuki ‘Ahok’ Tjahaja Purnama.
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An expert on Islam and democracy examines the threat to the world’s largest Muslim majority country.
‘Damenkneipe,’ or ‘Ladies’ Saloon,’ painted by Rudolf Schlichter in 1923. In 1937, many of his paintings were destroyed by the Nazis as ‘degenerate art.’
The 1920s and early ‘30’s looked like the beginning of the end for centuries of gay intolerance. Then came fascism and the Nazis.
After his assassination, Abraham Lincoln became a beacon of the United States presidency.
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Even Donald Trump has paid his respects to Lincoln as an emblem of unity.
EMILY’s List helps elect pro-choice Democratic women candidates to office.
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Research shows that married women tend not to relate as much to other women. This makes a big difference when a woman is on the ballot.
Musicians protesting against government while holding instruments in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Musicians who learned how to play through a state-funded program called El Sistema are taking their instruments to the streets to protest the government.
Emmanuel Macron surrounded by Cabinet ministers – some more powerful than others.
REUTERS/Charles Platiau
Having the same number of Cabinet positions doesn’t mean women have the same amount of power.
Trump holds a joint news conference with Indian Prime Minister Modi on June 26, 2017.
REUTERS/Carlos Barria
A small, but wealthy, population of Indian-Americans is playing a role in transforming US foreign policy toward India.
People walk out after the U.S. Supreme Court granted parts of the Trump administration’s emergency request on the travel ban.
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A professor of constitutional law gives a preview of what to expect when the travel ban cases reach the highest court this fall.