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| Foreign Policy Dominates The Week
President Trump’s foreign policy was center stage this week as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made his first trip to Moscow and the president was coming off a summit with President Xi Jinping of China.
RealClearPolitics’ Alexis Simendinger reports that “the dire descriptions of fault lines between Washington and Moscow stood in stark contrast with the praise and appreciation Trump heaped on President Xi Jinping of China, with whom he said he forged ‘very strong bonding’ during discussions last week in Florida.”
Vice President Mike Pence is set to arrive in Seoul on Sunday to discuss U.S. options for a response to any North Korea provocation. Trump is spending the weekend at Mar-a-Lago.
Members of Congress, meanwhile, are back in their districts until April 24 but a special election next week in Georgia is being closely watched by both sides of the aisle.
RealClearPolitics’ Caitlin Huey-Burns reports the contest to replace Tom Price in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District is being seen as the first big test of the Trump opposition: “The amount of money and resources poured into this race, and the competitiveness of the district, could also prove to be a recruiting tool for the Democratic Party, which is looking for candidates to run for Congress in 2018.”
Topics Du Jour
Trump’s job approval is at -10.2 points in the RealClearPolitics Average.
There are a couple of big elections coming up in Europe.
RealClearWorld has a French Presidential Election polling average, where Emmanuel Macron narrowly leads Marine Le Pen, 24.1 percent to 24.0 percent.
The first round of voting in France takes place on Sunday, April 23.
Also at RealClearWorld, Aaron Stein, a fellow at the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, looks at Turkey’s referendum on April 16, in which voters will consider a slate of sweeping changes that could seal the country’s drift away from Europe.
In this week’s “The First 100 Days” podcast, RealClearEducation editor Christopher Beach travels to Kansas City, Missouri, to talk with Awais Sufi, head of SchoolSmartKC, about his new education nonprofit dedicated to closing the achievement gap in local public schools. He also speaks with Aaron North, a senior official at the Kauffman Foundation, which was instrumental in the inception and launch of SchoolSmartKC.
This Sunday is Easter. At RealClearReligion, George Busby explores whether science can ever find Jesus’ DNA.
RealClearEnergy editor Bill Murray looks at cybersecurity protection efforts in the U.S., including the creation of a “cyber-ninja force” that can travel to affected areas.
RealClearPolitics’ James Arkin reports Democrats will be using Tax Day – April 15 – to put more pressure on Trump to release his tax records.
In Other Originals
At RealClearPolicy, Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., warns of the dangers of civil asset forfeiture.
Cookie Moms vs. Cookie Police: RealClearInvestigations’ James Varney looks into laws in Wisconsin and New Jersey that still ban small-scale sales of home-baked goods outside the occasional church function and the like.
RealClearScience’s Ross Pomeroy examines how one of the Supreme Court’s worst decisions “led to the sterilization of as many as 70,000 people.”
RealClearLife’s Diana Crandall offers five things to know about Comedy Central’s Hasan Minhaj, host of this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
At RealClearHealth, Express Scripts Senior Vice President Steve Miller dives into the prescription drug pricing debate, writing that “discussions to control costs have never been more important, as recent estimates put global drug spending at $1.5 trillion by 2021.”
At RealClearEducation, David Randall, the director of communications at the National Association of Scholars, explores new ways to pay for college at a time when more than 44 million Americans owe $1.3 trillion in student loans.
RealClearMarkets editor John Tamny writes that “the answer to economic growth is to ignore the economists, along with the columnists who think like economists do.”
And, at RealClearSports, the editors rank the Top 10 Weirdest Sports Injuries.
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