| Why increased US pressure on Iran appears to be backfiring Posted: 31 Jul 2018 12:42 PM PDT ![Why increased US pressure on Iran appears to be backfiring]( "Why increased US pressure on Iran appears to be backfiring") President Trump's escalation of anti-Iran rhetoric and increased US pressure against the Islamic Republic have been a boon to Iran's noisy minority of hard-line, America-obsessed flag burners. Amid a broader administration effort to deepen instability among Iranians torn by their own political and social divides, there are signs the Trump-led targeting of Iran may be backfiring, as Iranians coalesce against a foreign enemy. One result is a newly belligerent anti-American tone from Iran's centrist President Hassan Rouhani, who has advocated outreach to the West.
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| Abolish ICE? Reform it? Or what? Posted: 31 Jul 2018 12:35 PM PDT ![Abolish ICE? Reform it? Or what?]( "Abolish ICE? Reform it? Or what?") The warehouses and storage hangars of metal, plastics, and recycling companies surround the facility's long, low buildings, where on any given day the United States federal government houses almost 1,600 men and women. Only the presence of a protest camp outside the Northwest Detention Center disrupts the gray tableau, exposing an enterprise distinct in its function and political dimensions. Activists first showed up in June in response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) separating more than 2,500 children from their parents at the US-Mexico border under President Trump's "zero-tolerance" policy on illegal crossings.
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| Trump’s offer to talk to Iran Posted: 31 Jul 2018 12:06 PM PDT ![Trump's offer to talk to Iran]( "Trump's offer to talk to Iran") Is President Trump on a charm offensive with America's most implacable foes? In less than two months, he has met with North Korea's Kim Jong-un in Singapore and Russia's Vladimir Putin in Finland. Then, on Monday in response to a reporter's question, Mr. Trump offered to meet Iran's leaders "anytime they want to" and without preconditions.
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| As midterms approach, conservative ‘Never Trumpers’ find allies outside the lines Posted: 31 Jul 2018 11:49 AM PDT ![As midterms approach, conservative 'Never Trumpers' find allies outside the lines]( "As midterms approach, conservative 'Never Trumpers' find allies outside the lines") Max Boot's life changed the moment Donald Trump announced for president. Suddenly, the lifelong conservative Republican – historian, author, foreign-policy adviser to three GOP presidential candidates – began to question his place in his adopted home. Mr. Boot, who is Jewish, had fled the Soviet Union as a boy with his family, and here was a major Republican contender tarring immigrants in the ugliest of terms.
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