Leah N.

Jalovec
Hon Gov P. 4
9/02/19
1. Title: The real problem with Trump’s foreign policy
Author: by John Walcott
 While Donald Trump was on a trip to a campaign event in Ohio, he got some questions
about America’s position about the months-long pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
 The U.S. and foreign officials were confused about the mixed messages and struggled
with asking basic questions about American policy.
 More than 12 former and current U.S. officials in the White House said the lack of clarity
on Hong Kong reflects a muddled approach not just to that crisis but to policymaking.
Subheading: The President’s Penchant
 These officials say that the President’s Penchant for ad hoc policy making spread across
government.
 Two of the officials said that there is less and sometimes no coordination among Cabinet
departments as a result.
 According to officials, the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and State Department
officials also have adopted the top-down pattern.
 According to two people in attendance, Under Secretary of State for Management Brian
Bulatao, a West Point classmate of Pompeo’s, said that because Pompeo was away from
the building 80% of the time, he was streamlining the management of the department by
slashing the number of officials who report to him in a July 25 closed-door meeting with
the Business Council for International Understanding.
 Insiders say that the lack of orderly policy processes across government is what led to the
confusion on Hong Kong.
 By taking a harder line than Ross, Bolton warned the Chinese in an interview on August
15th that they “have to look carefully at the steps they take because people in America
remember Tiananmen Square,” which is a reference to the 1989 demonstrations that were
brutally crushed.
 It had already gotten as close as the Trump team has come to embracing America’s long-
standing position on Hong Kong.

2. Title: Troops Aren’t the Answer

Author: by James Stavridis
Subheading: As the humanitarian crisis at the southern border has grown, the President and
his allies have called for the U.S. military to be deployed in greater numbers. I commanded
 the U.S. Southern Command, overseeing all forces south of this country, for a few years, and
I am skeptical that there is a military solution to these challenges.
 There was a report in July that the Trump Administration was calling up over 2,000 more
troops to support the approximately 5,000 already there on duty.
 The first key to solving this crisis is Interagency cooperation.
Subheading: We Also Need
 Better international cooperation has become a necessity in a situation like this.
 Supporting migrant populations are translated into financial costs, which is obvious in
terms of the significance of facing the risks of Latin American countries.
 Not only can public private ownerships assist in addressing the humanitarian crisis, but
also tackle the root causes of migration.
 These useful strategies are far less costly than keeping 7,000 troops on the border or
building a huge, unnecessary wall.

3. Title: The economy under Trump is very good. But don’t be fooled
Author: by Alan Blinder
Subheading: Donald Trump Is
 Now being a decided underdog for re-election, Donald Trump is almost regardless of
whom the Democrats put up against him.
 Even if the stock market is down from its highs and extremely volatile on a day-to-day
basis, make no mistake that the economy really is still in a very good place.
 Trump deserves a little credit since he inherited a strong economy from Barack Obama,
who had inherited a catastrophe from George W. Bush.
 The tax cut Trump signed in December 2017 did put more money into people’s pockets
and did enhance incentives to invest even though the tax cut was horribly structured,
regressive and fiscally irresponsible.
Subheading: The Damage
 However, the damage Trump has done to the economy will probably prove to be more
important.
 Rising on happy talk and falling on bellicose words or acts, the stock market now dances
to the daily news from the trade front.
 China was sort of a bad actor in international trading years, but their main transgression
was a host of problems surrounding intellectual-property protection.
 We’re facing a trade war not over what really matters, but over the fact that China sells
more to us than we sell to them.
 The trade deficit with China is costing Americans millions of jobs is the problem that
Trump wants us to believe in.
  It’s difficult to view how the short-term sugar high can come close to balancing the long-
term costs of ignoring climate change, the large budget deficits and the trade war.

4. Title: We need bipartisanship to fix the economy. That seems impossible now
Author: by Barney Frank
Subheading: Growing Uneasiness About
 The rise of the question of how a divided government will respond to bad news derives
from a growing uneasiness about a possible slowdown in our economy.
 Constructive cooperation between Republican President George W. Bush and a
Democratic Congress kept a bad situation from getting much worse in 2008.
 Speaker Nancy Pelosi was demonized throughout the 2018 campaign as hyperpartisan,
despite leading the Democratic majority to come to the aid of Bush in 2008.
 Frank believes congressional Democrats would still work with the Administration to
avert economic downturn if it were possible for them to do so, despite this rebuff.
 When it came to working with Bush’s economic team, they said yes when asked if we
could go there in 2008.

5. Title: Headless chickens

Subheading: What a raid on poultry processors says about the Trump administration’s
immigration strategy
 When a counsellor pulled 16-year-old Jose out of class, the school day on August 7th was
just beginning.
 After being arrested that day, Jose’s parents ended up among the 303 people released.
 Large swathes of undocumented immigrants were deported by Barack Obama’s
administration.
 Tom Homan ordered workplace enforcement to be increased “four or five times” over
then-current levels in 2017.
 That raid would have happened in a different political world; Muzaffar Chishti, a lawyer
and policy analyst, contends that the Pottsville raid was intended to nudge congressional
Republicans into supporting immigration reform by showing them how inhumane
enforcement would be without an agreement.
 An ICE spokesman, Bryan Cox insists that ICE is “equally focused...on those who
unlawfully seek employment and the employers who knowingly hire them”.
 Such raids are impressive as a show of force; are efficient as a matter of policy.
 There are many signs that this shift in priorities is having consequences.
 These raids make more than just immigrants nervous.
 These raids help Mr. Trump keep his deportation numbers up now that local police are
less co-operative than they used to be.
 From local police assistance, much of that increase stemmed.
 Even know no evidence backs him up, Donald Trump may believe that raids deter would-
be migrants.
 Jose’s neighborhood was deserted on a recent afternoon.

6. Title: Rural change

Subheading: Republicans see an opening in a longtime Democratic stronghold
 In Eveleth, Minnesota, support for miners is ubiquitous.
 In Eveleth and across four small mining cities – called the Quad Cities, loyalty to
resource extraction endures.
 Having changed, Mr. Vlaisavljevich and his family were long proud Democrats, like
most on the Range.
 He says that he is a Democrat who describes his political transition as “The Democrats
are two parties in one, and the left has abandoned the middle class.”
 Todd Hall is also from a mining family of fervent Democrats in nearby Hibbing.
 She has organized Republican float for Hibbing’s annual street parade for three years.
 Leading the Republican party in Minnesota, Jennifer Carnahan calls the Range ripe for
expansion.
 But it is unknown whether gains in the Iron Range help to tip Minnesota Republican in
the 2020 presidential election, in which Donald Trump is eyeing the state.
 Calling the state a “toss up,” Larry Jacobs of the University of Minnesota agrees a tight
contest is likely.
 Raising the standing of the first-time congresswoman of Somali descent in Minneapolis,
Mr. Trump’s attacks on Ilhan Omar have also helped to expose an urban-rural fault line
among Democrats according to Mr. Jacobs.
 A senator in North Dakota until this year, Heidi Heitkamp is leading a national effort
called “One Country” to persuade rural voters that Democrats have their interests at heart.
 When addressing voters in towns like Eveleth, Ms. Heitkamp also wants Democrats to
change their tone.
 She admits that such messages won’t win over all rural voters, but they are better than
silence.
Title: Pushed out
Subheading: New research probes eviction’s causes and consequences
 Some 80 people – mostly black – waited on pew-like benches for the start of their
eviction cases at housing court at nine o’clock on a recent Friday.
 Across the country, similar scenes play out almost daily in courtrooms.
 Let alone acted on, it is rare for a sociology book to be widely read.
 Landlords have the legal right to enforce tenants’ legal obligation to pay rent.
 Housing instability results in wrecking credit histories and disrupting work and school.
 Furthermore, economists have recently found that the financial consequences of eviction
look less dismal than might be expected.

7. Title: Tsai’s prize

Subheading: America defies China with a big arms deal for Taiwan
 There is nothing like an American president who is not squeamish about outraging China,
for Taiwan.
 Mr. Trump decided to sell Taiwan 66 new F-16 fighter jets on August 18th.
 Hardly tipping the military balance against China’s increasingly powerful armed forces,
the fleet of new F-16s will boost Taiwan’s ageing air force.
 Under the previous president from Ms. Tsai’s Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan first
asked America for more F-16s in 2006, which typically has especially testy relations with
China.
 Campaigning for re-election in early 2020, Ms. Tsai was delighted with the news.
 China wasn’t pleased with this; a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry said on August
16th that American arms sales “severely violate the one-China principle”.

8. Title: Arctic antics

Subheading: How Greenlanders feel about Donald Trump’s talk of buying their land
 When President Donald Trump said America might buy Greenland, a self-governing
island that forms 98% of Danish territory, most Danes thought it was a joke.
 According to Aleqa Hammond, she knew from the start this was to be taken seriously.
 Today Greenland has only 57,000 inhabitants, yet it is of growing strategic importance,
as Russian submarines reappear in the Arctic and China dreams of a “polar silk route”
through newly ice-free seas.
 Including Kim Kielsen, the current prime minister, Greenland’s feisty legislators all agree
that the island’s sovereignty is not for sale.
 Danish taxpayers send Greenland more than $600m a year in subsides, as Mr. Trump
observed.
 A veteran leftist, Aqqaluk Lynge said the spat with Mr. Trump might make Danes and
Greenlanders appreciate one another.
 Greenland exports mostly seafood today.
 They would get a culture shock if the Danes ever decided to become part of America,
which for now seems highly unlikely.
 9. Title: Back to where he came from
Author: Lexington
Subheading: The president’s re-election campaign is likely to be even more racially divisive
than his first
 In retrospect, Donald Trump’s bigotry is such an established part of American public
discourse that one of the most febrile debates of 2016 looks naive.
 Inviting four unnamed, the answer was in long before the president sent an especially
offensive tweet this week, which was intended for Democratic congresswomen that were
non-white to “go back” to where they came from by inference.
 Having moved away from the Democrats in the tough times of 2012, many states such as
Georgia and Maryland drifted back towards their candidate in the better ones of 2016.
 They were rather unified by nothing so much as antipathy to America’s growing
diversity, and an attendant feeling that whites were losing ground.
 John Sides, Michael Tesler and Lynn Vavreck describe the rationalism such Trump
supporters made as “racialized economics” in their book “Identity Crisis”.
 Hence Mr. Trump’s inflammatory comment this week, for while the strength of the
economy might appear to have given him a better electoral option; he is intent on a repeat
performance.
 The first thing to know is that Mr. Trump’s campaign will be more racially divisive than
it was in 2016, when he won white voters by 20 percentage point.
 The second point is that it might work again too.
Subheading: The Gipper took a different view
 In any way, Democrats must resist Mr. Trump setting their agenda.

10. Title: Building a bureaucratic wall

Subheading: Migration is your problem, the United States tells its neighbours
 A city in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Laredo has a migrant shelter,
and the mood is cheerful.
 The Trump administration promulgated a rule that upends the United States’ system of
dealing with asylum-seekers and could dash the hopes of those in Nuevo Laredo and
thousands more on July.
 Anyone who is not Mexican and arrives at the American border by land are affected by
the rules.
 President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to keep immigrants out of the country but in the
headlines is the order.
 The migrants in Nuevo Laredo were subject to an earlier decision by Mr. Trump to
require asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico while American courts process their claims,
even before the new rule took effect.
 The migrants’ wait will be procrastinated from “metering”.
 People are entitled to asylum if they face persecution in their home countries because of
their race, religion, nationality, membership of a social group or political opinion under
international and American law.
 According to the Justice Department, a “large majority” of asylum claims at the border
are rejected.
 At the same time, the Trump administration’s response has been to narrow its
interpretation of what asylum means and to transfer to other countries responsibility for
caring for asylum-seekers and judging their cases.
 The migrants’ situation had become more uncertain than ever due to Mr. Trump’s latest
order.
 Depending on whether American courts overturn the new policies, migrants’ hopes of a
less perilous passage.
 A hub for drug-trafficking, Tamaulipas is among Mexico’s least safe states.
 The 46-year-old from central Cuba, Eldis has waited eight weeks in Tamaulipas to apply
for asylum in the United States but is now unsure what to do.