Trump's Son Met With Russian Lawyer After Being Promised Damaging Information on Clinton  —  President Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign …

When Will the Planet Be Too Hot For Humans?  Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine.  —  Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. … It is, I promise, worse than you think.  If your anxiety about global warming is dominated …

President Trump's enemies list  —  Donald Trump is less than six months into his presidency, yet one of the organizing principles of his political operation is already becoming clear: Payback.  —  In private, Trump has spoken of spending $10 million out of his own pocket to defeat …

Republicans' best play amid health bill chaos is failure  —  This is a mess of the party's own making and a Congress far more in touch with 2016 politics than 2017 governing.  —  The Republican plan to undo the Affordable Care Act has spun out of control.  GOP senators are frustrated …

Obama returns to political fray for a Democratic Party cause  —  Former president Barack Obama will formally reenter the political fray this week less than six months after leaving office, headlining a fundraiser for a group that could prove critical to the Democratic Party's rebuilding efforts.

Does Trump Have a Point About Obama and Russia?  —  Did President Obama “choke,” as his successor has now taken to claiming, by failing to respond more aggressively to the Russian hacking of the 2016 elections?  —  For President Trump to say so carries more than a whiff of hypocrisy given …

Why Democrats are still losing the war of ideas  —  MORE FROM: … Last week, a Politico/Morning Consult poll on President Trump's proposed travel ban on visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries revealed a somewhat surprising discovery: 60 percent of voters agreed with Trump's proposed ban.

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Individual Insurance Market Performance in Early 2017  —  Concerns about the stability of the individual insurance market under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have been raised in the past year following exits of several insurers from the exchange markets, and again with renewed intensity …

Donald Trump's alarming G20 performance  —  A company would have replaced a CEO with behaviour as erratic as that of the president  —  Read next  —  Confusing civility with comity is a grave mistake in human or international relations.  Yes, the G20 summit did agree on a common communiqué after the leaders' meeting.