Trump administration

Trump's appeasement of the Turkish strongman will backfire

The Trump administration is turning a blind eye as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan consolidates his dictatorship. Appeasing Turkey will backfire. Appeasement will embolden Erdogan's crackdown on human rights, undermine the US-led fight against ISIS, while pushing Russia and Turkey closer together.

The Guardian: Donald Trump's Child Cruelty Shocks us, but it Shouldn't Surprise us

This is un-American!" has been one of the more common reactions to the news about the Trump administration's decision to enthusiastically tear apart immigrant families and throw toddlers in cages - or, as Fox News's Steve Doocy delicately put it, not cages but "warehouses with walls built out of chain-link fences". "This is not who we are!" cry my fellow American liberals.

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