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their enriched uranium outside Iran. Western analysts were confident that Mr. Khamenei would give his blessing, given the international pressure he was said to be under following the fraudulent elections and the bloody crackdown that followed. The Ayatollah quashed that deal too...

… in line with what you’re trying to achieve over time,’” she recalls. “And I said, ‘I don’t know how you do one without the other.”” Hillary has already had some successes, most conspicuously her use of American diplomatic leverage in the U.N. Security Council to get China and e...

…itics. This happened in Taiwan, where I grew up. When I was a child, I was fluent in Mandarin and Taiwanese, as most of the children I was friends with were not recent immigrants from Mainland China like my family was. There were no social conflicts, as far as I recall, until the...

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20 A myth quickly arose that the women in the administration—Clinton, U.N. ambassador Susan Rice, and national-security aide Samantha Power, whose Pulitzer Prize—winning book on genocide was influential in Obama’s thinking—drove the debate. “The idea that the girls pushed the bo...

…ealDonaldTrump, US institutions stood firmly with MBN throughout Obama's presidency. This was reaffirmed in a letter to the King. After @realDonaldTrump's Riyadh visit, he changed the US stance on the MBS v MBN power struggle and forced the establishment to back MBS. Past US ad...

42 state, stating in a letter addressed to their state’s universities that these organizations “are a threat to our nation’s security by serving as a platform for China’s intelligence collection and political agenda.” They added that, “We have a responsibility to uphold our Amer...

few restraints about the way he deals with his adversaries. He could act unilaterally and shut down the investigation, forcing a legal test likely before the Supreme Court. He could order the Attorney General—even given his prior recusal—to repeal the Special Counsel regulations...

Page 2 of 42 103 Minn. L. Rev. 844, *845 Structural responses to the state declining to use its enforcement authority are much fewer and less prominent. At least in common law countries, enforcement decisions are the province of police and prosecutor discretion, and oversight of...

…'s good side By Emily Smith Steve Bannon shared a secret meeting with reviled billionaire pedophile Jeffrey -Epstein at the financier's notorious Upper East Side mansion. Former White House chief strategist Bannon was spotted stepping out of his SUV and entering the registered se...

Indeed, Wiener gave scientific teeth to the idea that in the workings of history, politics, and society, ideas matter. Beliefs, ideologies, norms, laws, and customs, by regulating the behavior of the humans who share them, can shape a society and power the course of historical ev...

The Chinese Puzzle | 239 tains there its largest intelligence base outside mainland China. A large contingent of its officers are stationed officially in the Prince of Wales skyscraper in central Hong Kong and unofficially main- tain informers in Hong Kong’s police, governing au...

maturity but sagaciousness, the Tea Party-Bannon-Breitbart wing mounted an ad hominem campaign pushing an image of Ryan as uncommitted to the cause, an inept strategist and incompetent leader. He was the Tea Party-Bannon-Breitbart punch line: the ultimate empty suit, a hee-haw so...

…ent agencies in this country, through -- through power that, you know, somebody at that level, fifth I think in line to the British Throne, would have, you know, presumably access to levers of power that other people might not -- might not have. And so that is the -- I believe...

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