In this moment of heated rhetoric, planners in and out of government are examining decades of research and projections, playing out war games, and estimating death tolls. The paths forward for President Trump fall into four main categories, experts say: Keep the status quo, create tougher sanctions, push for talks and war.
The statement came in a state-owned newspaper’s editorial. But China will step in, the newspaper wrote, if the U.S. tries a preemptive strike to force regime change.
We ask a range of experts in South Korea and in the United States how worried we should be about the latest tensions between Pyongyang and Washington.
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Analysis Kim Jong Un’s goal has always been to create a credible, long-range nuclear threat to the U.S. mainland to deter the United States from obliterating his regime.
The Debrief
After a week of seclusion at his Bedminster golf club, the president weighed in on a far-reaching array of topics with neither his new chief of staff nor his press secretary able to control what he might say next or how long he would keep talking.
Republicans had hoped to begin a conversation about tax reform and must-pass budget measures. Instead, they’ve faced constituents still focused on the stalled effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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A U.S. official confirmed that embassy employees suffered hearing damage and neurological symptoms that remain unexplained.
Germany’s integration efforts for newcomers include teaching them about Holocaust history. But some observers worry that hostility toward Israel in the Arab world translates into anti-Semitism among Mideast migrants.
Lord, a reliable defender of President Trump, tweeted "Sieg Heil!" in an escalating dispute with liberal group Media Matters, which he has labeled "fascist" for its boycotts of media figures.
Critic’s Notebook
The film has been hailed by many for plunging viewers into an event that crystallizes white supremacy and impunity. But for others, it’s a dispiriting example of a white artist undertaking self-examination using the spectacle of suffering and desecration of the black body.
When venture capitalists hear pitches from entrepreneurs, one of the first questions they ask is how easy would it be for Facebook to copy the idea. It is increasingly the reason they decline to invest.
The figure dramatically beat the Trump Organization's expectations and gave the first hard number to critics who charge that Trump is profiting from his presidency.
