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Thu, April 26, 2018 | 09:03

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Listen to students who march for their lives

If you had any doubt about the power of young people to change the world, consider the turnout for Saturday's March for Our Lives events in Washington, D.C., Parkland, and cities across the globe.

Guest Column | 2018-03-29 17:08

Threat to Western democracy starts at home

Four days before the United Kingdom's 1924 election, the Daily Mail published a letter purportedly written by Comintern Chairman Grigori Zinoviev, calling on British Communists to mobilize “sympathetic forces” in the Labour Party to support an Anglo-Soviet treaty and to encourage “agitation-propaganda” in the armed forces.

Guest Column | 2018-03-28 16:53

NRA's blunders fueled the gun-safety marches

You had to be there. As Americans took to the streets Saturday, defying a political order that, in Washington and many state capitals, has allowed extremists to write gun laws, the bodies _ of both the dead and the living who marched in their honor _ mattered a lot.

Guest Column | 2018-03-28 16:50

Brexit transition agreed but Gibraltar and Ireland issues remain

The European Council summit of presidents and prime ministers on March 23 signed off, in principle, on the Brexit transition deal agreed between the United Kingdom and EU-27, March 12.

Guest Column | 2018-03-28 15:58

U.S. President Donald Trump is getting serious about translating his contempt for the international system into concrete policies. His decision to impose $50 billion in punitive import tariffs on many Chinese goods could severely disrupt global trade. And while he made a last-minute decision to exempt EU goods from such tariffs, Europe may yet end up in the line of fire.

Guest Column | 2018-03-27 16:29

What Bolton's arrival means for next three months

If there were ever any checks on the erratic, impulsive Trump foreign policy, they nearly vanished last week.President Donald Trump's replacement of national security adviser H.R. McMaster with the uber-hawkish John Bolton practically guarantees that the president will walk away from the Iran nuclear deal in May. And Bolton's call for a pre-emptive attack on North Korea makes any prospects for a Trump-Kim Jong-un summit look slimmer than they already were.

Guest Column | 2018-03-27 16:24

Kim Jong-un says 'North Korea is committed to denuclearization'

Putin's Pyrrhic victory

Vladimir Putin's re-election to a fourth term as Russia's president was a foregone conclusion. The Kremlin undoubtedly orchestrated ballot-box stuffing and other measures to ensure that Putin received at least 70 percent of the vote across all regions.

Guest Column | 2018-03-26 16:26

There's a blamer-in-chief in the Oval Office

President Donald Trump knows little history. But he can read a short take, so someone should slip him a copy of Dwight Eisenhower's brief note of June 5, 1944, on the eve of the largest seaborne assault in history, D-Day, with World War II at stake.

Guest Column | 2018-03-26 16:23

Republicans turn blind eye to bad policy

The most striking thing about how President Donald Trump chose his new national security adviser, John Bolton, and new director of the National Economic Council, Larry Kudlow, isn't about either of them personally, although neither is well suited to the honest-broker role that their position calls for. Nor is it that Trump seems to have hired both of them because he liked watching them on television. That's a deeply flawed reason to hire anyone, to be sure, but we're accustomed to how Trump hires people based on superficial criteria.

Guest Column | 2018-03-25 17:49

Trump ups the ante by $60 billion in doomed trade war with China

Trump was evidently just warming up when he ordered global tariffs on steel, aluminum, solar panels and washing machines in recent weeks. The main event came Thursday, when the president announced plans to impose up to $60 billion in tariffs on China. This time, the president is focused on the right problems: China's abuse of U.S. companies that do business there, its pursuit of technology developed here, and its support for hackers who steal trade secrets online.

Guest Column | 2018-03-25 17:48

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