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![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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Spot the Mistakes
![Donald Trump listens during a meeting with California leaders and public officials who oppose California's sanctuary policies in the Cabinet Room of the White House May 16, 2018, in Washington, DC.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/GettyImages-959294236-400x300.jpg)
Down the Memory Hole: Trump’s Strategic Assault on Democracy, Word by Word
Trump is hardly the first president to discover the importance of language as a political tool.
![A woman passes a mural painted on the wall of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, on May 9, 2018.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/GettyImages-956438466-400x300.jpg)
In a More Rational World, the US and Iran Would Have Full Diplomatic Relations
Now more than ever, it is necessary to understand Iran in the context of its own history and its tumultuous relationship with the US.
![Donald Trump Jr. answers questions from reporters while touring Sarris Candies with Rick Saccone, Republican congressional candidate for Pennsylvania's 18th district, March 12, 2018, in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/GettyImages-931077484-400x300.jpg)
Trump Scandal Overload: Don Jr. Remembers Nothing and Republicans Finally Begin to Face the Facts
Republicans are starting to admit that the Russians meddled to help Trump.