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Main storiesEditor’s letterFor my 17-month-old son, it must have felt like the biggest betrayal of his young life. Early last year, my wife headed off to London for a week to visit her terminally ill mother—a trip she would repeat every few weeks for the next 11 months. We both agreed that adding a jet-lagged toddler to this already emotionally harrowing situation wouldn’t help anyone, so the boy stayed home with me. Of course, my son couldn’t understand our reasoning. He was simply confused that his mom, his main caregiver and the center of his tiny world, kept vanishing. And he resented her for it. Suddenly, I became the favorite parent. When she returned, he didn’t want to be cuddled by her, didn’t want to play with her, didn’t want to be…3 min
Main storiesTrump backs down on border separationsWhat happenedFacing a growing wave of national outrage, President Trump this week signed an executive order halting his administration’s policy of separating migrant families detained at the southern border. Trump, who had insisted only Congress could fix the problem by changing the law, abruptly reversed course after Congress, religious leaders, many Republicans, and his own wife and daughter expressed dismay over photographs of children kept in chain-link fence enclosures, audiotapes of wailing toddlers, and reports that dozens of infants and toddlers were being sent to “tender age” shelters in South Texas. More than 2,300 children were separated from their parents following the Trump administration’s implementation in May of a “zero tolerance” policy requiring the prosecution of all illegal border crossings. “I didn’t like the sight or the feeling of families…5 min
Main storiesMarkets tumble as trade war heats upWhat happenedPresident Trump escalated a growing trade war with China this week, threatening to levy tariffs on virtually all Chinese products imported to the U.S. unless Beijing makes major trade reforms. Just days after China threatened to impose $50 billion in tariffs on American products, including soybeans, beef, cars, and tobacco—measures that came in response to earlier U.S. tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese goods—Trump upped the ante, ordering U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to draw up a list of $200 billion in Chinese products to hit with 10 percent tariffs. Trump then warned that he would order yet another $200 billion in tariffs if China retaliated. Together, that would total tariffs on $450 billion worth of Chinese goods, a sum nearly as large as the $505 billion in goods…2 min
Main storiesMueller ramps up pressure on Trump associatesWhat happenedSpecial counsel Robert Mueller’s probe took an ominous turn for President Trump this week, after it was revealed that his longtime adviser Roger Stone met with a Russian national who tried to sell dirt on Hillary Clinton, and his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was jailed for allegedly tampering with witnesses. A federal judge revoked Manafort’s bail after prosecutors accused him and a Russian aide and political operative, Konstantin Kilimnik, of using encrypted messages to contact two witnesses. Manafort will remain in detention until his trial in September on charges related to his business dealings, including conspiracy and money laundering. Stone, meanwhile, told reporters that he met in May 2016 with a Russian named Henry Greenberg who offered him damaging information on Clinton in exchange for $2 million. He…2 min
Controversy of the weekTrump: Has the GOP become a personality cult?The proof keeps pouring in, said Jonathan Chait in NYMag.com: “The Republican Party is devolving, at an accelerating speed, into a cult of Donald Trump.” In Tuesday’s primaries, at Trump’s last-minute urging, GOP voters rejected South Carolina’s Rep. Mark Sanford, a veteran conservative deemed insufficiently loyal to the president, and in Virginia they nominated Corey Stewart, a far-right white nationalist whose rabid devotion to President Trump outstrips even his love of the Confederacy. The Trump propagandists over at Fox News, meanwhile, have been plumbing new depths of Orwellian dishonesty in the service of the Dear Leader. Not only do Fox anchors daily echo the president’s baseless conspiracy theories about the Deep State and Bob Mueller’s “witch hunt,” but the network this week even attacked GOP Sen. Marco Rubio for the…3 min
Controversy of the weekGood week/bad weekGood week for:Goose bumps, after 2,505 women set a new world record for “largest skinny dip” by bathing in the nude off the east coast of Ireland to raise funds for cancer research. “I have never been naked in front of anybody before, except my husband, and it was brilliant and bracing,” said participant Deirdre Betson.Earth-shaking enthusiasm, after seismologists detected a small earthquake in Mexico City at the same time Mexico scored in the team’s 1-0 World Cup victory over Germany. The “artificial” quake was probably caused by “mass jumping,” geologists said.Kim Jong Un, who in the wake of the recent summit with President Trump now boasts a higher “favorable” rating among Republicans—19 percent—than does House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi—17 percent.Bad week for:Interactivity, after a 5-year-old boy accidentally knocked over…1 min

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