| In Rosenstein’s personal saga, signs of the course of Russia investigation Posted: 01 Oct 2018 02:09 PM PDT ![In Rosenstein's personal saga, signs of the course of Russia investigation]( "In Rosenstein's personal saga, signs of the course of Russia investigation") This week Rod Rosenstein may finally face the grim prospect of a face-to-face meeting with President Trump to explain something many Trump supporters consider wholly inexplicable. According to a recent New York Times report, in May of 2017, Mr. Rosenstein, the newly installed deputy attorney general, allegedly suggested to senior FBI and Justice Department officials that he might wear a concealed recording device to gather evidence against the president. Rosenstein has said the New York Times report was inaccurate, and his defenders said his comments about wearing a wire were made in jest.
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| A trade accord that can mend North American ties Posted: 01 Oct 2018 12:34 PM PDT ![A trade accord that can mend North American ties]( "A trade accord that can mend North American ties") A great cloud of uncertainty has been lifted over the massive North American economy. On Sept. 30, the United States and Canada finally reached a trade agreement that, when joined with a recent US-Mexico pact, will replace the region's outdated accord from a quarter century ago. Positive views of the US in Mexico and Canada have plummeted, jeopardizing relations on a host of security and other noneconomic issues.
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| The world and the 'idea of America' Posted: 01 Oct 2018 12:30 PM PDT ![The world and the 'idea of America']( "The world and the 'idea of America'") It's a statement that sounds compelling but which, like much else in recent US politics, has invited dueling critiques from left and right: that America is more than just a country, or a culture. If so, we've just seen a dramatic retreat from so-called American exceptionalism: the belief that the idea is special, and that America's democratic experiment has given it a role to inspire others around the world. While the speech was entirely consistent with his "America First" credo, the wider shift of which it's a part could have real-world consequences.
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| In Iran, artist ‘survivors’ navigate obstacles, foreign and domestic Posted: 01 Oct 2018 09:00 AM PDT ![In Iran, artist 'survivors' navigate obstacles, foreign and domestic]( "In Iran, artist 'survivors' navigate obstacles, foreign and domestic") Inside her downtown studio, Iranian artist Rene Saheb is surrounded by the tools of her craft: a multicolored riot of art supplies, and a number of large, unfinished canvases upon which she explores her psyche – and the state of Iran's. One painting, still unfinished after years of work, reflects how the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s continues to effect everyday lives of Iranians, from the ubiquitous presence of "martyrs" to daily vocabulary. Iran's legions of creative artists have served as a window into the state of the country's deeply simmering cultural scene since long before the 1979 Islamic revolution.
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