Section: Salon (USA)
Another possible reset with Russia? Trump should consider perils of Big Oil diplomacy first
Traditional Russian wooden dolls called Matryoshka depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, hours before Donald Trump is to be sworn in as president of the United States, are displayed for sale at a street souvenir shop in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky) (Credit: AP) Energy has long...
Can you say awkward? 5 painful moments from Donald Trump and Theresa May’s joint press conference
British Prime Minister Theresa May talks to media with U.S. President Barack Obama after their bilateral meeting in Hangzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, alongside the G20. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (Credit: AP) What happens when an American authoritarian meets a British arch-conservative? The public found...
WATCH: Samantha Bee mocks President Donald Trump’s lackluster inaugural weekend
(Credit: TBS) Samantha Bee looked at President Trump’s inauguration on Wednesday night, and let’s just say she was unimpressed with the festivities. The “Full Frontal” host dedicated most of her opening monologue to Trump’s inaugural speech and the concert that was held for him the night before he was sworn in. “Friday the world...
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: The plutocratic evil twins claim to stand against the neoliberal economic order (they don’t)
Vladimir Putin; Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Maxim Shipenkov/Christopher Aluka Berry/Photo montage by Salon) Ten days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, BuzzFeed published the unconfirmed “Trump dossier” reportedly compiled by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, igniting a storm of controversy on many fronts. The media battled among...
Election rigging 101: Donald Trump’s crash course in hijacking democracy
President-elect Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, in Palm Beach, Fla. (Credit: AP) Donald Trump was right: The election was rigged. What Trump got wrong (and, boy, does he get things wrong) is that the rigging worked in his favor. The manipulations took three monumental forms: Russian cyber-sabotage; FBI...
The FBI is leading an investigation into Donald Trump’s connections with Russia
In this Jan. 13, 2017, photo, President-elect Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. Trump’s meetings this week with CEOs seeking federal approval for major mergers are raising red flags for ethics lawyers concerned that about the possible erosion of a firewall between the regulators tasked with...
Trump faces 4 areas of high risk conflict
(Credit: AP) Within months of taking office, President Donald Trump is likely to face one or more major international crises, possibly entailing a risk of nuclear escalation. Not since the end of the Cold War has a new chief executive been confronted with as many potential flashpoints involving such a risk of explosive conflict. This...
Why is Donald Trump so cozy with the Kremlin? A political scientist and Russia expert breaks down the theories
(Credit: Getty/Alexsey Druginyn/Christopher Furlong/Mireia Triguero Roura) As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised to ban Muslims from the entering the country and to make Mexico pay for a border wall. He pledged to level the economic playing field with China and to renegotiate the “very bad” Iran deal. These policies were red meat for...
With friends like these: Donald Trump’s anti-NATO and anti-EU stance scaring America’s European allies
Angela Merkel; Donald Trump (Credit: Getty/Odd Andersen/Reuters/Chris Keane) President-elect Donald Trump has alarmed America’s European allies with proclamations against NATO and the European Union that are worrying for most of Europe — but are being applauded by Vladimir Putin’s Russia. “People want their own identity, so if you ask...
Vladimir Putin defends Donald Trump, who he says is being “undermined”
FILE In this file photo taken on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures after signing a treaty to incorporate Crimea into Russia in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. When Alexander Zemlianichenko started working as an AP photographer in Moscow, the Soviet Union was nearing its demise. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko,...
