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Historian Who Picked Trump Presidency Now Forecasts His Impeachment: Second 100 Days More Important Than First
Saturday, April 29, 2017 - 9:32am | 830Read More...Historian Allan J. Lichtman took serious heat from the Left for predicting Donald Trump would win the presidency. Now, he’s hearing it from the Right because he’s predicting Trump is hurtling toward impeachment. He counts the many ways in his latest book, “The Case For Impeachment...
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Is Trump's Foreign Policy Belligerence A Diversion From A Stalled Agenda?
Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - 8:25am | 1061Read More...It’s called “saber rattling,” a term used when a leader has problems at home and picks a fight abroad. Historians have examined the idea exhaustively, but there’s nothing like seeing it in real time. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Il Jung, both of whom...
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What's A Constitutional Crisis, And Are We Headed For One Over Trump's Travel Ban?
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - 2:44pm | 1022Read More...Legal experts are having a field day debating whether President Donald Trump has plunged the United States into a “Constitutional crisis,” a loaded term but a somewhat elusive concept. To many people, explaining the concept might as well be embodied by paraphrasing the late Supreme...
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From Nixon To Trump: How Markets Respond When A Cabinet Member Is Fired
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - 12:48pm | 559Read More...President Donald Trump’s firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates late Monday shares some similarities with the actions of another president who tested executive powers — Richard Nixon. Yates was fired after directing her department not to defend Trump’s executive order on...
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Five Investments to Commemorate the Beginning of the End for Tricky Dick Nixon
Friday, June 17, 2011 - 1:43pm | 451Read More...On this date in 1972, a barely noticed event unfolded at the Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C. Frank Wills, a security guard at the complex, noticed that a few doors had their latches taped open, leaving the doors essentially unlocked and accessible to burglars. He removed the tape. An hour...
