| Beyond promise of united Korea, disarmament may depend on Trump Posted: 30 Apr 2018 02:19 PM PDT ![Beyond promise of united Korea, disarmament may depend on Trump]( "Beyond promise of united Korea, disarmament may depend on Trump") Last week's summit between South and North Korea was full of feel-good symbolism. After the meeting was over, North Korea even announced it would shift its time zone to align with that of the South. Mr. Kim had found it a "a painful wrench" to see two clocks showing different times on the wall at the summit venue, North Korean state media said.
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| Why these Muslims are fighting anti-Semitism Posted: 30 Apr 2018 01:39 PM PDT ![Why these Muslims are fighting anti-Semitism]( "Why these Muslims are fighting anti-Semitism") Laziza Dalil had butterflies before she took the stage at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in lower Manhattan last week. The answer has many dimensions, said Ms. Dalil, a leader in the Association Mimouna, a coalition of Muslim students who have taken on the task of highlighting the deep Jewish roots woven into Moroccan culture. The same could be said the night's event: a conference of major American Jewish organizations gathered to honor Muslims who protected Jews during the Holocaust, along with activists like Dalil.
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| Macron emerges as champion of the liberal world order Posted: 30 Apr 2018 01:18 PM PDT ![Macron emerges as champion of the liberal world order]( "Macron emerges as champion of the liberal world order") With a pair of major foreign policy challenges looming in the coming days – the future of the Iran nuclear deal and the prospect of a trade war between America and its European allies – it's easy to lose sight of the longer-term goal behind French President Emmanuel Macron's dramatic state visit to Washington. France's World War II resistance leader, President Charles de Gaulle, was famously, if perhaps apocryphally, quoted as saying: "Je suis la France! (I am France!)" Macron's message is actually more ambitious: "Je suis l'Europe." In fact, he is seeking to position himself not just as the embodiment of a reinvigorated European Union, but as a key defender of the whole edifice of postwar international cooperation and liberal democracy built by the Americans, with Europe's support, seven decades ago.
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| Traveling with Trump as he skipped – and skewered – the press dinner Posted: 30 Apr 2018 01:13 PM PDT ![Traveling with Trump as he skipped – and skewered – the press dinner]( "Traveling with Trump as he skipped – and skewered – the press dinner") Two days after comedian Michelle Wolf's raunchy (and to some, offensive) speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Washington is still buzzing about her remarks. By contrast, President Trump's campaign-style rally in Michigan Saturday night, staged as counter-programming to the press dinner, was a mostly forgettable 80 minutes. In fact, I'm probably one of the few who will remember what Mr. Trump said that night.
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