The many contradictions of Trump

What to make of Donald Trump now? What to make of a president who powered a Middle East peace agreement that eluded Egypt, Qatar and France; who won an accord that matches and perhaps exceeds that of Jimmy Carter with Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat (1979) and Bill Clinton with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat (1993) – and who has dispatched federal troops to cities in his own country, used a government shutdown to fire federal workers and redefined the extent of executive power?

Fort Sumter and American division

CHARLESTON, S.C. – On an artificial island 4 miles from downtown stands an unlikely reminder of the cost of national disunion, a granite monument to discord, both a reminder of the price of division and a warning to contemporary political warriors.

Partnership in Public Transparency

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