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Commentary: For Trump, filling 4,000 government jobs will be easier than you think
You’ve seen the stories – President-elect Donald Trump was shocked to learn he needs to hire over 4,000 political appointees by January 20, and that people in Washington may refuse to work in a Trump administration, or that Trump, as a newcomer to politics, may not know enough people to get down to business. Many of the same news sources which said Trump would never win are now exaggerating the few hours’ delay of a transition memo, or the switch from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to Vice P
Commentary: What Americans can learn from Britain’s vote for Brexit
Forty-eight hours before Donald Trump was declared winner of the U.S. presidential election, it was, as the great Yogi Berra quipped, “déjà vu all over again.”
Commentary: How Trump’s win boosts the Putin myth in Russia
Russia’s meddling in the U.S. presidential campaign was unprecedented in American history. Whether or not Moscow’s intervention helped Republican Donald Trump win the White House remains unclear. Nevertheless, Trump’s victory – and the Kremlin’s enthusiasm for it – offers proof that the post-World War Two era is over and that millions of U.S. voters support a broader international retreat from global integration.
Commentary: Trump, Putin and a nervous NATO
As Donald Trump takes up residence in the White House next January, one of the most powerful NATO forces in years will be preparing to move into Eastern Europe.
Commentary: Will Trump embrace the UK Anglosphere? Will it embrace him?
Around the turn of the millennium, a group of thinkers on the right, both American and British, gathered round a project they called the Anglosphere. The English-American writer Robert Conquest wrote of it in his “Reflections on a Ravaged Century:” "We [the main English-speaking states] have both the physical power and the moral prestige first to preserve the precarious peace of the world and, for the longer term, be the focus and example for a . . . genuine world community."
Commentary: Trade. North Korea. Iran. The dangers awaiting Trump
Barack Obama met with Donald Trump at the Oval Office on Thursday following his spectacular election upset on November 8. While the president-elect promptly promised to “put America’s interests first, but deal fairly with everyone”, many U.S. allies are nervous about what his win will mean for U.S. policy. That means he now has to begin a major campaign of re-assurance, and prepare for a host of challenges in a world full of potential danger.
Commentary: Trump hits fast forward on the Republican Party’s sharp swerve right
At first glance, it may seem like we’ve been here before. Come January, the Republicans will control the White House, both houses of Congress and, soon enough, the Supreme Court – just as they did for the four years following the 2002 election. How different could it be?
Commentary: The number one reason to fix U.S.-Russia relations
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia was ready to fully restore relations with the United States following the election of Donald Trump. But even so, when Trump assumes power on Jan. 20, he will inherit a Russian-American relationship in deep crisis.
Commentary: Trying to make sense of the Trump win
From start to finish, the 2016 campaign broke just about every rule of politics.
Commentary: Welcome to Donald Trump’s world
So now we know. Sometime after the presidential inauguration on January 20, America’s new commander-in-chief will take his seat in the Oval Office for the first time. Donald Trump will sit back, survey the room where so much history has taken place and then, somehow, make his mark on the world.
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