As US president Donald Trump was proposing a $54 billion defense spending hike on March 16, something rather different was happening in Russia. With its economy sputtering, there are reports that it could slash its military budget by 25%.
Maybe the “Trump effect” in Europe is weaker than it seems. After a noisy campaign that grabbed international headlines, Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders fell far short of his pre-electoral hopes on March 15, according to exit polls.
The US State department caused a full-on brouhaha in Washington media circles when it said journalists wouldn’t join secretary of State Rex Tillerson on his trip to South Korea, Japan and China, which began today.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is the jewel in the crown of America’s fight against international business bribes and corporate favors. Intended to promote American business and foreign-policy ideals around the world, and give US companies a tool to battle corruption abroad, it has also helped other countries crack down on bribery, and has extracted billions of dollars in fines.
In normal times, a visit by the foreign minister of one of America’s closest allies would be coordinated by the State Department from start to finish, with a meeting between the minister and the secretary of State in the midst of it.
Black History Month just ended in the US. You can tell because president Donald Trump’s only African-American cabinet member just described slaves as “immigrants” with dreams of prosperity in America.
US president Donald Trump continues to be dogged by concerns about his connections to Russia and suggestions that several of his advisers were in contact with the Kremlin during his election campaign.
In substance, US president Donald Trump’s first speech to a joint session of Congress differed little from his “American carnage” inauguration message on Jan. 20.
US president Donald Trump has a long list of conflicting claims about his relations with Russia and its president Vladimir Putin—from claims in 2013 that he has “a relationship” with and has “met” Putin, to hyperbolizing in 2016 that he doesn’t “know who Putin is.”
The top two aides to US president Donald Trump have been trying to show the world that, despite reports about their “war for the White House,” they’re actually really, really good buddies.
Upon entering the beating heart of a country’s government, one normally expects to find a swarm of self-important politicos at least claiming to know what’s going on. Dispatched for a month to Washington, DC from Quartz’s New York headquarters, your reporter hoped to come across just that.
Donald Trump earned just 14% of the LGBT vote in the last US presidential election, the lowest percentage any Republican candidate has received since the LGBT vote has been tallied. But in the weeks since, one prominent gay rights group has placed itself staunchly in his corner—the Log Cabin Republicans, a four decades-old Republican lobbying and activist group for LGBT rights with thousands of members.
Andrew Puzder has removed himself from consideration as US president Donald Trump’s labor secretary, after weeks of growing pressure over domestic violence allegations and his hiring of an undocumented maid.
Until US president Donald Trump’s election, Republican lawmakers were hawkish—sometimes to a fault—on Russia, regularly hounding president Obama for his perceived weakness toward the Kremlin.
Normally, when an urgent issue of international security arises, the US president retires to a secure area where smartphones are forbidden.
Even before Donald Trump was sworn into office, his critics, including conservative ones, were predicting or outright demanding his swift impeachment. Since his inauguration, more opponents have joined the call for his ouster.
US president Donald Trump talks unflatteringly about all kinds of international institutions—the UN, EU, NATO—basically anything bearing an acronym that crosses borders and relies on US participation. But there’s one internationalist endeavor he really does care about: the Olympics.
Former Brexit leader Nigel Farage has long reveled in outraging the European Parliament with rants from the chamber floor: He notoriously once accused then-EU Council president Herman Van Rompuy of having “all the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk.”
Update, Jan. 30 9:30pm: Yates has been removed from her post and replaced by Dana Boente, who was appointed by Obama in 2015 as US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia.
As a candidate and now as US president, Donald Trump has seemed hellbent on alienating urban voters.
US president Donald Trump’s goal of deporting millions of undocumented immigrants is going to be tricky to carry out if he doesn’t have the help of the cities where they live.
Week one of US president Donald Trump’s reign has begun and the first lawsuit has rolled in.
If for some reason Donald Trump’s stormy inauguration speech didn’t convince you that the US is abdicating from its global leadership role, perhaps the newly-published “America First Foreign Policy” manifesto will. Published minutes after the inauguration on the revamped www.whitehouse.org, the first line reads: “The Trump Administration is committed to a foreign policy focused on American interests and American national security.”
Most outgoing presidents shove their papers in a fancy library and let them sit there. Not Barack Obama—his library will be a “presidential center for citizenship” on the South Side of Chicago and he’s calling on ordinary Americans to help drive it.
