

President Trump’s schedule (EST): 11:30 AM: Meets with the House Problem Solvers Caucus; 1:00 PM: Has lunch with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; and 2:15 PM: Signs S.24, the “Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019,” requiring retroactive...
Letter from Washington

Letter from Washington
“U.S.-China Talks Near Close With Positive Signs From Both Sides.” This morning’s Bloomberg article led with: Chinese authorities planned to give a statement following the latest round of U.S. trade talks on Tuesday in Beijing, after both sides...
Letter from Washington

Trump won’t win the Nobel Peace Prize – whether or not he deserves it
There we have it. The date and time for Donald Trump’s meeting with the Kim Jong-un are set. It was announced when Trump’s newly appointed secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, returned from Pyongyang with three Americans who had been imprisoned in North Korea. The summit...
Trump won’t win the Nobel Peace Prize – whether or not he deserves it

What happens to oil if Trump tears up the Iran deal?
For all Boris Johnson’s best efforts to persuade him otherwise, President Trump seems likely to pull the United States out of the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). This weekend Rudy Giuliani symbolically...
What happens to oil if Trump tears up the Iran deal?

The seductive simplicity of blaming Trump’s win on Cambridge Analytica
For the last two years, on both sides of the Atlantic, liberals and other concerned citizens have spent their time searching for an answer to the agonising, appalling, question “How did this happen?” How, for the love of God, could the United States have elected...
The seductive simplicity of blaming Trump’s win on Cambridge Analytica