Literally, there’s a five-point plan that she has used to take down macho adversaries her entire career.
[....] Vladimir Putin. The Russian president, whose economy is now paying the price for testing her on Ukraine, considers Merkel a “dangerous person,” alone among her European peers capable of pushing back, according to Russian dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
President Trump and Arnold Schwarzengger were embroiled in a long-distance feud on Thursday after the president used a prayer breakfast speech to taunt the action star about his reality show ratings, and Mr. Schwarzenegger fired back in a video posted on Twitter.
Did Independent Journal Review's little-noticed exclusive signal a changing of the guard in D.C. media?
During last year’s presidential campaign, the upstart, millennial-focused conservative website Independent Journal Review was best known for videos of Ted Cruz cooking bacon on a machine gun and candidates pardoning turkeys.
A vision of Islam as an inherently hostile ideology has long flourished on the fringes of the far right. Now the president and top aides have embraced it.
...This worldview borrows from the “clash of civilizations” thesis of the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington....
Leaders like Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines seem to see a respite from criticism and a chance to advance nationalist goals.
[....] luckily there is one voice coming from the White House that clearly articulates the direction in which it wants this country to head economically. That voice belongs to Peter Navarro, the head of Trump's newly formed National Trade Council.
[....] “He is running a cabal, almost like a shadow NSC,” the official said. He described a work environment where there is little appetite for dissenting opinions, shockingly no paper trail of what’s being discussed and agreed upon at meetings, and no guidance or encouragement so far from above about how the National Security Council staff should be organized.
[....] The Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte, signed an executive order this month calling for the full and immediate enforcement of a 2012 law that would give six million women like Ms. Torreras free government-distributed contraception and reproductive health services.
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