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![A man walks past a television news screen at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump on May 16, 2018.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/GettyImages-958991280-400x300.jpg)
Playing Trump for Peace: How the Korean Peninsula Could Become a Global Bright Spot
Let Trump preen so he can get out of the way of the real work.
![Donald Trump and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/GettyImages-944567322-400x300.jpg)
White House Launches Incoherent Counterattack on Mueller Probe
Even as news emerges of another suspicious meeting, White House launches major assault on FBI.
![President Donald Trump speaks at the East Room of the White House May 18, 2018 in Washington, DC.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/2018_0519trump-400x300.jpg)
Donald Trump Really Shouldn’t Have Run for President
The skeletons in Trump's closet are marching into the light.
![People calling for Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to step down protest in Managua, Nicaragua, on April 23, 2018.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/FULL-GettyImages-950471744-400x300.jpg)
Capitalist Development in Nicaragua and the Mirage of the Left
The Sandinistas are now fully on board with neoliberalism.
![Latest appointee to Donald Trump's legal team and former mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani attends the Conference on Iran on May 5, 2018, in Washington, DC.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/GettyImages-955081966-400x300.jpg)
In Desperate New Defense for Trump, Rudy Suggests Russia Collusion Wasn’t Illegal
Team Trump keeps inventing new fantasies and this one is especially bizarre.
![Pastor John Hagee addresses a crowd of his followers as they wave Israeli and US flags during a rally in downtown Jerusalem on April 7, 2008.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/FULL-GettyImages-80549730-400x300.jpg)
In Jerusalem, Christian Zionists Seal the Deal With Netanyahu
The embassy is Trump's payback to white evangelicals.
![Police search a protester at the entrance to a designated protest area outside the 2018 American Renaissance conference in Burns, Tennessee.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/AmRen10-400x300.jpg)
The Fight Against the Far Right Requires Tackling White Nationalist Institutions
Many well-known universities receive far-right funding.
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Who’s Paying Hush Money Now?
Several corporations were caught giving money to a company used by Trump's personal attorney to pay hush money.
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Planned US-North Korea Peace Talks in Jeopardy as Trump Adviser Bolton Pushes for Regime Change
North Korea is threatening to cancel the June 12 US-North Korea summit.
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