Is Trump a Berlusconi? Or more like Mussolini?; Trump is making China angry. Could China undermine the U.S. in Latin America?; Trump says he’ll cancel Obama’s ‘unconstitutional’ executive actions. It’s not that easy.; Death Angel, ‘Conflict of Interest': The Week In One Song; How Twitter can empower opposition forces in authoritarian countries; Donald Trump did not win 34% of Latino vote in Texas. He won much less.; We checked Trump’s allegations of voter fraud. We found no evidence at all.; Trump won in counties that lost jobs to China and Mexico.;
 
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What Thomas Hobbes can tell us about Donald Trump and conflicts of interest
The problem: American history has proven Hobbes wrong.
Is Trump a Berlusconi? Or more like Mussolini?
Italian history — in the 1930s and more recently — has insights on checks and balances in the United States.
 
Trump is making China angry. Could China undermine the U.S. in Latin America?
China will find it tough to make further inroads into Latin America.
 
Trump says he’ll cancel Obama’s ‘unconstitutional’ executive actions. It’s not that easy.
The items in his list range from things clearly within the president’s unilateral authority to those that will require a fair bit of cooperation from others.
 
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Death Angel, ‘Conflict of Interest': The Week In One Song
Conflict(s) of interest?
 
How Twitter can empower opposition forces in authoritarian countries
Here's what data from Egypt, Algeria and Saudi Arabia can tell us.
 
Donald Trump did not win 34% of Latino vote in Texas. He won much less.
The official precinct data prove it.
 
We checked Trump’s allegations of voter fraud. We found no evidence at all.
There weren't millions of fraudulent votes.
 
Trump won in counties that lost jobs to China and Mexico.
We checked, county by county.
 
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