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• DACA decision highlights the allure – and pitfalls – of executive authority
• Trump and the Democrats: How day-time drama enraged GOP viewers
• When combatants turn democrats
• In Juba's only post office, ghosts of a young country's hopes for 'normal'

DACA decision highlights the allure – and pitfalls – of executive authority Posted: 07 Sep 2017 02:10 PM PDT President Trump has spent his first months in office laying waste to key elements of President Barack Obama's legacy. Richard Nixon, Harry Truman, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were all parties to famous Supreme Court cases involving presidential actions.

Trump and the Democrats: How day-time drama enraged GOP viewers Posted: 07 Sep 2017 01:21 PM PDT It's a plot twist in a presidency that sometimes seems more about drama than policy: Surprise! President Trump's a Democrat now, not a Republican. It may even force a long-building final confrontation between activist and establishment factions of the GOP. Will it actually make much difference for the debt ceiling, hurricane relief, tax reform, and other important fiscal stuff now working its way through Congress?

When combatants turn democrats Posted: 07 Sep 2017 01:12 PM PDT For countries seeking an end to civil conflict, Colombia began to offer a useful model this month. The guerrilla group called the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which had used violence for more than 50 years to pursue its leftist aims, turned itself into a peaceful political party on Sept 1. The model is not really in the transformation of FARC from fatigue-clad jungle rebels into blazer-adorned urban politicians.

In Juba's only post office, ghosts of a young country's hopes for 'normal' Posted: 07 Sep 2017 10:55 AM PDT There are airmailed envelopes addressed in Chinese and American absentee ballots from the 2008 presidential election, a dozen postcards from an American elementary school, and enough Ethiopian Airways frequent flier statements to paper the walls of a small mansion. Maybe others have lost their box key," says Mr. Andrea, the assistant director for international relations at the South Sudan Postal Service. Recommended: Think you know Africa?

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