Reflections on how to correct a speech after the President has started speaking (minute 25); when President Obama said a speech was "fine" (1 hour, 10 min); why there's no such thing as the "deep state" (1 hour, 18); and three basic facts about Trump and Russia (1 hour, 22).
Read more »Szuplat: We saw “a tale of two Trumps. He gives the appearance of moderation while his agenda is as extreme as ever. I have to think that presidents and prime ministers all over the world – our closest allies, from Asia to Europe – were scratching their heads.”
Read more »“If he hopes to succeed as president, Trump will at some point need to appeal to people’s better angels, rather than their darkest impulses.”
Read more »“There’s strong bipartisan support in Washington for a more stabilizing approach—continued broad-based U.S. political, economic and security engagement in the Asia Pacific. We’re not under any illusions that we can stop everything Trump is planning. But we’re seeing an unprecedented explosion of progressive activism and it will only get stronger.”
Read more »At 13 years old, Alina still believes in America and her place in it. Whether the hopes of young Americans like her can be sustained will be one of the surest measures of the health of a pluralistic, tolerant America in the years ahead.
Read more »Words matter, and the words of a U.S. President matter immensely in shaping how the world perceives America. When the United States is held in high esteem an American President is in a stronger position to advance U.S. interests.
Read more »“As speechwriters, we often write with a specific person or group of people in mind — the people we want the speech to connect with, emotionally. In this case, I kept thinking of one of my uncles, born and bred in Boston who, to me, embodied the Boston Strong spirit of pride and defiance we saw that week.”
Read more »“It made a big impression on me,” one Havana resident told an American reporter. It showed that President Obama seems to be “open-minded, reasonable and someone capable of putting himself in other’s shoes.”
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