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The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy.

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Based on her new book, writes Leopold, it is clear Hillary Clinton "is not interested in playing patty-cake for the sake of party unity in the Age of Trump. Screw that. She has accounts to settle."

The author is responding to the Atlantic article, “Are You Sure You Want Single Payer?,” She writes: "The article is a particularly irksome entry in a genre of story that dates back to the beginning of the Sanders campaign. Each one says, effectively: Single payer would be hard to do, are you sure you really want it? So let’s consider: What if, actually, single payer is good?"

It turns out . . . the real threat to the Homeland did not come from fringe radicals in the Middle East. Americans are more likely to be struck by lighting or fall down in their bathtubs and fatally hit their heads than they are ever to be negatively affected by Middle Eastern terrorism. Where did the real threat come from? From toxic carbon dioxide and methane emissions.

Ultimately Pruitt, Trump and even Rush Limbaugh, who called Irma a "liberal hoax," are only a fraction of the problem. Krugman continues: "Almost every senior figure in the Trump administration dealing with the environment or energy is both an establishment Republican and a denier of climate change and of scientific evidence in general."

The reality of life in post-Soviet Eastern Europe is not at all what was promised.

The current conflict is one of the many unintended consequences of the continuing Cold War and the arbitrary division of the Korean peninsula that has lasted to this day. In a military confrontation with the United States, North Korea faces a terrible choice between using its weapons first or losing them in a conventional war against a far superior power.

The Palestinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas in the occupied West Bank is intensifying its crackdown on Palestinians exercising their rights to free speech. Meanwhile politicians and activists in France are calling on their government to act on behalf of a Palestinian-French human rights defender arrested by Israel.

With Gill v. Whitford, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken the most important case in decades dealing with how Americans are represented in Congress and state legislatures.