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The U.S. president and the people around him hold deep intellectual beliefs about historical cycles and upheaval on the horizon

All the president’s little lies normalize falsity and create the conditions necessary for a big lie to become believable

You might not expect to find poetry in a president’s speech to a room of police chiefs. But it’s impossible not to see it in Trump’s remarks.

The voracious reader is said to admire the writings of authoritarian intellectuals whose views helped fuel inter-war fascism

From Gorsuch’s criticisms to an awkward tweet, we’re tracking the news-filled days of Donald Trump’s presidency

The two Tory leadership frontrunners took a page from The Donald: she’s shameless, he’s politically clueless

In contrast to Trump’s tough talk for his NATO allies, Harjit Sajjan has positive meeting with U.S. defence secretary

Who is this multi-careered, thrice-divorced, in-house philosopher of the Trump White House?

Australian reporter Steve Dow on how Trump and Turnbull actually have lots in common—for better or for worse

Anne Kingston on what Donald Trump means with his edict that women should dress ’like women’