The Trump presidency ushers in a new age of militarism

Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. There's a facile contention that President Trump — hostile to free trade pacts and skeptical of grand military alliances — is an isolationist, an advocate of American […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/03/01/the-trump-presidency-ushers-in-a-new-age-of-militarism/

Trump ‘finally’ condemned killing of Indian man as act of hate. Was he too late?

President Trump used a big bully pulpit -- his historic first address to the U.S. Congress -- to condemn the shooting of an Indian computer engineer on Feb. 22 in Kansas that the FBI said Tuesday it is investigating as hate crime. “We may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/03/01/trump-finally-condemned-killing-of-indian-man-as-act-of-hate-was-he-too-late/

For decades, no one spoke of Taiwan’s hidden massacre. A new generation is breaking the silence.

Growing up in the United States, Yu-Ting Lin had always known — through stories repeated in car rides to school — that his grandfather had died young, and tragically, in Taiwan. He had been a kind and generous physician who had set an example they should follow, his father told Lin all the time. But […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/28/for-decades-no-one-spoke-of-taiwans-hidden-massacre-a-new-generation-is-breaking-the-silence/

German police say suspected Islamist extremist accused of plot was once a neo-Nazi

Last week, German police arrested a 26-year-old man on suspicion of plotting an Islamist-inspired attack. The man, identified only as “Sascha L.," is accused of plotting to lure police officers and soldiers into a trap. When authorities searched his apartment in Northeim, Lower Saxony, they found chemicals and electronics that could be used to make explosives. Such […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/28/german-police-say-suspected-islamist-extremist-accused-of-plot-was-once-a-neo-nazi/

Once Time’s ‘Person of the Year,’ an Ebola fighter dies in childbirth due to stigma of virus

As the chaos and tragedy of the Ebola outbreak engulfed parts of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea in 2014, a more insidious ill took root: distrust of all who had come in contact with the disease. The suspicion was certainly not without reason. Whole countries looked on as the disease erased entire family trees. Doctors […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/28/once-times-person-of-the-year-an-ebola-fighter-dies-in-childbirth-due-to-stigma-of-virus/

How one Indian student tried to challenge right-wing nationalist groups on campus

NEW DELHI — A college student and her social media posts have become the center of shrill debate about patriotism and free speech in India after students clashed on campus over a seminar on the nation’s conflict regions. It began with protests by the powerful Hindu nationalist students’ group, the All India Students Council, against an event at New […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/28/how-one-indian-student-tried-to-challenge-right-wing-nationalist-groups-on-campus/

The irony of Republicans complaining about McCarthyism

Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. A couple of days before a host of celebrities spoke out against President Trump at the Oscars, Hollywood icon George Clooney was feted at […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/28/the-irony-of-republicans-complaining-about-mccarthyism/

The latest poll numbers in Ecuador are a bad sign for Julian Assange

Ecuador will elect a new president April 2, and poll results are not looking good for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. According to a Feb. 23-24 survey of 2,834 Ecuadorans by the Cedatos polling agency, right-wing challenger Guillermo Lasso is leading the ruling party candidate, Lenin Moreno, by a margin of 52 to 48 percent. Lasso has […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/27/the-latest-poll-numbers-in-ecuador-are-a-bad-sign-for-julian-assange/

Saudi king reported to be taking 506 tons of luggage, including two limos, on trip to Indonesia

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud is heading to Indonesia this week for a nine-day visit. It will be the first time in 46 years that a Saudi king has visited the world's largest Muslim nation, and it comes at a time of heightened attention on the economic links between the two nations. But Salman has come […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/27/saudi-king-reported-to-be-taking-506-tons-of-luggage-including-two-limos-on-trip-to-indonesia/

Iranians celebrate Oscar-winning film with sarcastic thanks to Trump’s travel ban

Call it the Trump bump. At least that’s the sarcastic spin from some Iranians who believe that the uproar over President Trump’s travel ban helped give some extra Oscar buzz to “The Salesman,” which took home the award in the best foreign language category on Sunday. Iran doesn’t really need an added boost with the […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/27/iranians-celebrate-oscar-winning-film-with-sarcastic-thanks-to-trumps-travel-ban/

Mahershala Ali is the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar. Some Muslim countries would deny that.

Like thousands around the world, Pakistani academic Adil Najam tweeted with apparent pride about Mahershala Ali becoming the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar. Ali won the best supporting actor award for his role as the mentor of a gay black boy in Miami in the film “Moonlight.” “Also loved him in #HouseofCards,” Najam wrote. […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/27/mahershala-ali-is-the-first-muslim-actor-to-win-oscar-some-muslim-countries-would-deny-that/

How the Oscars put Syria in the spotlight

BEIRUT — Sitting 7,000 miles from the fuss and frills of Sunday's Academy Awards, it was Raed Saleh, dressed in a simple T-shirt, who delivered one of the most powerful messages of the night. In a short acceptance speech — posted online after a documentary about his Syrian White Helmets rescue force won an Oscar — the former electrics […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/27/how-the-oscars-put-syria-in-the-spotlight/

An act of American terror in Trump’s heartland

Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. To most Americans, a shooting in Kansas last Wednesday will be remembered as just another incident of gun violence in a country where homicides are tragically […]

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U.S. Detains and Nearly Deports French-Jewish Historian

PARIS — Henry Rousso is one of France’s most preeminent scholars and public intellectuals. Last week, as the famous historian attempted to enter the United States to attend an academic symposium, he was detained for more than 10 hours — for no clear reason. On Wednesday, Rousso landed from Paris at Houston’s George Bush International […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/26/u-s-detains-and-nearly-deports-french-jewish-historian/

Palestinian Christian from Bethlehem wins wildly popular ‘Arab Idol’ song contest

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Thousands gathered in the holy city’s Manger Square late Saturday night to watch one of their own win the “Arab Idol” song contest, the wildly popular ratings monster that brings the Middle East to a standstill as millions tune in. The winner was Yacoub Shaheen, a Palestinian and member of Bethlehem’s […]

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Israeli intelligence minister says Trump created a new path to peace

JERUSALEM — Israel’s Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy, Israel Katz, is known as a political bulldozer. It’s a label he is proud of and a trait, he believes, could bring about peace with the Palestinians. Albeit in a roundabout way. Katz’s plan, which he says has been adopted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/26/israeli-intelligence-minister-says-trump-created-a-new-path-to-peace/

What’s behind the student suicides sweeping Hong Kong

The two boys put on their school uniforms, left home and then killed themselves. A 15-year-old leapt to his death at Times Square in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay; days before, he told his parents that he was unhappy at school. This month, at least five students in Hong Kong took their own lives. Another was […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/25/whats-behind-the-student-suicides-sweeping-hong-kong/

Who is Nils Bildt? Swedish ‘national security advisor’ interviewed by Fox News is a mystery to Swedes

In a segment on Fox News's “The O'Reilly Factor” that aired Thursday, host Bill O'Reilly spoke with two Swedish nationals about allegations that Sweden had become a more dangerous place in recent years because of immigration. One guest, Swedish journalist Anne-Sofie Naslund of the Expressen newspaper, pushed back against O'Reilly's comments, suggesting that her country was far […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/25/who-is-nils-bildt-swedish-national-security-advisor-interviewed-by-fox-news-is-a-mystery-to-swedes/

Many European countries won’t recognize transgender people unless they’re sterilized

LONDON — To many Europeans, the Trump administration's decision to restrict some transgender Americans from using bathrooms that match their gender identities was yet another indication that the is United States turning away from liberal values. Transgender people's rights have become a more pressing concern for European activists and lawmakers in recent years. But compared with the outrage the current U.S. […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/25/many-european-countries-wont-recognize-transgender-people-unless-theyre-sterilized/

How you’ll know when the U.S. isn’t a democracy anymore

Here's the funny thing about democracy: Sometimes, you don't know what you've got til it's gone. John Carey, a Dartmouth professor of government, would know. He has spent his career studying the erosion of democracy in Latin American countries such as Venezuela and Argentina. And time and again, he has seen the same thing. “It’s only […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/25/how-youll-know-when-the-u-s-isnt-a-democracy-anymore/

German intelligence agency spied on foreign journalists, report says

For almost two decades, Germany's foreign intelligence agency spied upon scores of foreign journalists around the world, according to a new report in Der Spiegel. The German news weekly claims to have seen documents that show that at least 50 telephone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses from journalists and editors around the world have […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/%3Fp%3D141439

The mayor of Paris pushes back against Donald Trump and his friend ‘Jim’

To @realDonaldTrump and his friend Jim, in @LaTourEiffel we celebrate the dynamism and the spirit of openness of #Paris with Mickey & Minnie pic.twitter.com/VdIq3uWkO3 — Anne Hidalgo (@Anne_Hidalgo) February 24, 2017 Speaking at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor in Maryland on Friday, President Trump told a story of a friend named “Jim” who […]

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‘I appeal to all the parents in India not to send their children to the United States,’ distraught father says after shooting

Family members of the Indian men shot at an Olathe, Kan., bar Wednesday in a possible hate crime said that they feared that the current atmosphere of fear and xenophobia in the United States means that the country is not a safe place for Indians, with one Indian father exhorting parents not to send their […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/24/i-appeal-to-all-the-parents-in-india-not-to-send-their-children-to-the-united-states-distraught-father-says-after-shooting/

Dutch vessel offering abortion services docked in Guatemala. The army seized it.

Early Wednesday morning, a ship pulled into port in Quetzal, Guatemala. Depending on who you ask, it's either a godsend or a "boat of death." The vessel, run by Women on Waves, travels the world offering free abortion services in places where the procedure is banned. The group brings women up to 10 weeks pregnant out […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/24/dutch-vessel-offering-abortion-services-docked-in-guatemala-the-army-seized-it/

There’s a new push to make Obama president again. This time, of France.

  "Oui on peut" 😂😊 #obama17 #yeswecan #vivelarepublique #presidentielle #barakobama A post shared by McHautbois (@mchautbois) on Feb 22, 2017 at 12:28am PST In just a couple of months, French voters will go to the polls to elect their next president. It's already turning into a divisive campaign, with the one-time conservative front-runner François Fillon […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/24/theres-a-new-push-to-make-obama-president-again-this-time-of-france/

German journalists warn that Trump’s America is looking more and more like Pegida’s Germany

DRESDEN, Germany — In press-freedom indexes, Germany ranks higher than most other Western nations — including the United States. Yet there was a time in 2015 when it felt differently to many journalists here. To some of them, it still does — and they warn that it's starting to feel different in the United States and other countries as […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/24/german-journalists-warn-that-trumps-america-is-looking-more-and-more-like-pegidas-germany/

Life expectancy is going up everywhere except in the U.S.

Here's a rare bit of good news: People are living longer than ever. According to a new Lancet study, life expectancy will jump across much of the industrialized world in the next two decades. By 2030, women in South Korea can, ahem, expect to live to 90, up from 84 in 2010. Women in France, Japan and […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/24/life-expectancy-is-going-up-everywhere-except-america/

The world is ignoring an ‘unprecedented’ starvation crisis

Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. The world is in the grip of an astonishing and acute crisis: More than 20 million people in South Sudan, Somalia, northern Nigeria and […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/24/the-world-is-ignoring-an-unprecedented-starvation-crisis/

This pretty blond doll could be spying on your family

The My Friend Cayla doll seems innocent enough. She's pretty, with curly blond hair, big blue eyes and kicky Converse sneakers. Her necklace lights up. And Cayla is Bluetooth-enabled, which means she can connect to the Internet and chatter with her owners about horses and hobbies. The American-made doll can even respond to questions, Siri-style. Like if you […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/23/this-pretty-blond-doll-could-be-spying-on-your-family/

Duterte’s fiercest drug-war critic faces arrest warrant — on drug charges

The leading critic of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's expansive crackdown on drug dealers is facing an arrest warrant on drug-related charges that she described as "simply surreal." Sen. Leila de Lima is perhaps the loudest voice in the Philippines' opposition. She has taken aim at Duterte's drug war, which has led to the extrajudicial killings of thousands […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/23/dutertes-fiercest-drug-war-critic-faces-arrest-warrant-on-drug-charges/

In an unusually hostile message, North Korean state media accuses China of ‘dancing to U.S. tune’

In an unusual commentary released by state media on Thursday, North Korea accused a foreign country that claims to be a “friendly neighbor” of measures tantamount to an attempt to bring down the Pyongyang regime. “This country, styling itself a big power, is dancing to the tune of the U.S. while defending its mean behavior with such excuses that it […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/23/in-an-unusually-hostile-message-north-korean-state-media-accuses-china-of-dancing-to-u-s-tune/

France’s Marine Le Pen refused to wear a headscarf to meet with Lebanese leaders

She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted. French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen walked away from a meeting with Lebanon's top Sunni Muslim leaders after she refused to wear a headscarf. The move sparked an outcry across the Arab world. “Observers, pundits and voters here say that they believe that this […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/23/marine-le-pen-refused-to-wear-a-headscarf-to-meet-with-lebanese-leaders/

The trickle of refugees fleeing the U.S. to Canada could become a deluge in the spring

  OTTAWA — As desperate asylum seekers continue to flee the Trump administration's immigration crackdown by crossing into Canada, concern is growing here over whether the country will be able to cope if the number of migrants keeps growing. Stories of migrants hauling children and suitcases across frozen fields and snow-covered ditches into Canada have become […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/23/the-trickle-of-refugees-fleeing-the-u-s-to-canada-could-become-a-deluge-in-the-spring/

Syria peace talks resume, but Assad is in the driver’s seat

Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. No one is expecting much progress when United Nations-brokered talks on Syria resume on Thursday in Geneva. The forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad scored significant […]

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Years after it mysteriously disappeared, the stolen Dachau concentration camp gate has returned

A wrought iron gate that carries the slogan “Arbeit macht frei” — “work sets you free” — has been returned to the Nazi concentration camp site where it was stolen more than two years ago. The Associated Press and Reuters reported that the Dachau concentration camp gate on Wednesday was returned to the site in […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/22/years-after-it-mysteriously-disappeared-the-stolen-dachau-concentration-camp-gate-has-returned/

The Russian military is building a mini-Reichstag at its amusement park so that kids have ‘a real building to storm’

MOSCOW — What happens when you combine a military targeting the next generation of soldiers and the sacred memory of World War II in Russia? "We're building a Reichstag in 'Patriot' park," Sergei Shoigu, Russia's defense minister, announced during a parliamentary address Wednesday. "Not to full size, but so our 'youth army soldiers' can storm not just any building, but a […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/22/the-russian-military-is-building-a-mini-reichstag-at-its-amusement-park-so-that-kids-have-a-real-building-to-storm/

The strange route Benjamin Netanyahu took to get from Singapore to Sydney

For many people flying from Singapore to Sydney, the flight can take as little as seven hours or so. But not if you are Benjamin Netanyahu. In the Israeli prime minister's case, it can take more than 11 hours. As you can see in the map above, created using data from FlightAware, the Israeli leader took an […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/22/the-strange-route-benjamin-netanyahu-took-to-get-from-singapore-to-sydney/

Azerbaijan’s president has chosen a new VP — his wife

This year, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev offered his wife a special anniversary present — he appointed her first vice president. On Tuesday, Aliyev announced that Mehriban Aliyeva, 52, would step into a role created last fall by constitutional referendum. In that position, she will succeed her husband if he steps down. She will also likely oversee the country's […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/22/azerbaijans-president-has-chosen-a-new-vp-his-wife/

An Uzbek journalist spent 18 years in jail. Today, he’s free.

After nearly two decades of imprisonment, torture, beatings, solitary confinement and exposure to diseases like tuberculosis, the Uzbek journalist Muhammad Bekjanov has been freed. His release Wednesday morning was no amnesty — he has served his initial sentence of 15 years and then some. In the years following the fall of the Soviet Union, of which […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/22/an-uzbek-journalist-spent-18-years-in-jail-today-hes-free/

Amnesty International just went there: new report compares politics today to the 1930s

In its latest report, Amnesty International just compared the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment and populist rhetoric in 2016  to the 1930s, singling out President Trump in particular. Trump was harshly criticized by the London-based group on Tuesday evening for his “hateful xenophobic pre-election rhetoric,” divisive politics and a rollback of civil rights. The comments were part of […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/22/amnesty-international-just-went-there-new-report-compares-politics-today-to-the-1930s/

Why are European kids are committing fewer crimes? They’re too busy on their phones.

LONDON — Every generation of adults loves to complain about today's unruly, good-for-nothing young people. But a group of Danish researchers says kids these days are actually on their best behavior. “In Denmark, we are observing a trend toward a much more law-abiding youth,” said Rannva Moller Thomsen, an analyst with the Danish Crime Prevention Council. A […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/22/why-are-european-kids-are-committing-fewer-crimes-theyre-too-busy-on-their-phones/

What’s next in South Korea’s never-ending political turmoil?

This is crunch week for President Park Geun-hye and Samsung, with prosecutors expected to wrap up their investigations into a sensational corruption scandal.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/22/whats-next-in-south-koreas-never-ending-political-turmoil/

What a bombing in Pakistan says about the Trump administration

Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. Before he entered the White House, President Trump leaped to comment on any apparent Islamist terror attack in the West, declaring that only he could fix […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/22/what-a-bombing-in-pakistan-says-about-the-trump-administration/

Icelandic president admits he does not have the legal authority to ban pineapple on pizza

Icelandic President Gudni Thorlacius Johannesson ignited a global debate this week by suggesting that he would ban pineapples as a topping on pizza if he could. Johannesson made the comments during a visit last week to a high school in Akureyri, a town in northern Iceland. The president was quizzed by students about his preferences in life — he told […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/22/icelandic-president-admits-he-does-not-have-the-legal-authority-to-ban-pineapple-on-pizza/

On his 93rd birthday, Robert Mugabe says of Trump: ‘Give him time’

Ahead of his 93rd birthday on Tuesday, longtime Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe offered his thoughts on President Trump. “I do not know him. Give him time,” Mugabe said during an interview with state television, the Zimbabwe Herald reported Monday. The Zimbabwean president also suggested that Trump might reexamine long-standing U.S. sanctions on Zimbabwe. In the interview, […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/21/on-his-93rd-birthday-robert-mugabe-says-of-trump-give-him-time/

Lindsay Lohan claims she was ‘racially profiled’ over a headscarf at London airport

American actress Lindsay Lohan claimed she was “racially profiled” at London Heathrow Airport recently while going through a security checkpoint wearing a headscarf. In an appearance on “Good Morning Britain” on Tuesday, Lohan told hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid that she was stopped in a Heathrow security line while traveling from Turkey to the United […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/21/lindsay-lohan-claims-she-was-racially-profiled-over-a-headscarf-at-london-airport/

Terrorists are building drones. France is destroying them with eagles.

Under French military supervision, four golden eagle chicks hatched last year atop drones — born into a world of terror and machines they would be bred to destroy. The eagles — named d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis — grew up with their nemeses. They chased drones through green grass that summer, pecking futilely at composite shells as seen in Sky News footage. They were […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/21/terrorists-are-building-drones-france-is-destroying-them-with-eagles/

Riots erupt in Sweden’s capital just days after Trump comments

Just two days after President Trump provoked widespread consternation by seeming to imply, incorrectly, that immigrants had perpetrated a recent spate of violence in Sweden, riots broke out in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood in the northern suburbs of Sweden's capital, Stockholm. The neighborhood, Rinkeby, has seen riots in 2010 and 2013, too. And in most […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/21/riots-erupt-in-swedens-capital-just-days-after-trump-comments/

The Trump presidency exists in a bubble

Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. President Trump’s speech over the weekend along Florida’s Space Coast — effectively a campaign rally staged just one month into his term — served, more than anything else, […]

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Hitler’s ‘weapon of mass destruction’ was hidden for decades. This weekend somebody bought it.

When Ranulf Rayner was 10 years old, his father, Brig. Sir Ralph Rayner, returned home from Germany at the end of World War II with a stunning trophy of war: a bright red, three-pound telephone used by Adolf Hitler during the final two years of his life. “The telephone was built by Siemens and they confirmed that […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/20/hitlers-weapon-of-mass-destruction-was-hidden-for-decades-this-weekend-somebody-bought-it/

Trump asked people to ‘look at what’s happening … in Sweden.’ Here’s what’s happening there.

President Trump caused confusion during a Saturday rally in Florida when he said: “You look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this?” Trump then mentioned the French cities of Nice and Paris and the Belgian capital, Brussels. The three European cities were all attacked by terrorists over the past two years. Although Trump did not […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/20/trump-asked-people-to-look-at-whats-happening-in-sweden-heres-whats-happening-there/

He’s the founder of a Californian independence movement. Just don’t ask him why he lives in Russia.

A post shared by Louis J. Marinelli (@louisjmarinelli) on Sep 24, 2016 at 7:22am PDT Louis J. Marinelli is a man on a quixotic mission: to help California secede from the United States and become an independent country. Surprisingly, this quest has been going relatively well of late. Marinelli's group, Yes California, is attempting to […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/19/hes-the-founder-of-a-californian-independence-movement-just-dont-ask-him-why-he-lives-in-russia/

Sweden has no idea what Trump meant when he said, ‘You look at what’s happening … in Sweden’

If you believe Swedish media, Friday night was relatively uneventful. Among the most noteworthy headlines were reports that a popular Swedish singer had technical problems during a musical competition. But if you believe President Trump, something happened in Sweden on Friday night that deserved the attention of the world. However, nobody knows what that might be so […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/02/19/sweden-has-no-idea-what-trump-meant-when-he-said-you-look-at-whats-happening-in-sweden/