Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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The spat with China shows the US no longer always gets its way
Trump’s readiness to use trade threats is not some new departure for US imperialism, as the decades-long blockade of Cuba shows, but in the past these threats were always directed at vastly weaker countries, with little or no leverage to hit back, writes KENNY COYLE
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, arrive
at a news conference at the State Department in Washington on Wednesday
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
TRYING to make sense of US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy often seems more an area of expertise for child psychologists than political analysts.
If Trump seems permanently befuddled, this lack of direction is also a reflection of the serious policy divisions within not only the Republican Party but the broader US elite.
There are radically diverging differences emerging about how to handle a world that the US can no longer shape and channel as effectively as it once did.
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DONG XUE explains why US tariffs hold no significant threat to China
Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US hegemony
