Donald Trump Will Be President In Just Over A Month And The Constitution Is Already Under Attack
It doesn’t take long.
With a little over a month until Donald Trump takes office, the president-elect and his allies have already begun to attack the guarantees of the First Amendment, signaling how imperiled the fundamental freedoms of the Constitution could be under a Trump presidency.
Trump has long shown contempt for the media and, as he prepares to take power, he and his allies haven’t held back.
On Thursday, Corey Lewandowski, who is Trump’s former campaign manager and expected to have a role in a Trump White House, said that New York Times editor Dean Baquet should be in jail because the paper published parts of Trump’s tax return during the campaign.
Trump's Taiwan call exposes his inexperience, China state media say
Trump advisers point to China’s measured reaction but experts say Beijing leaders will be privately enraged and unnervedDonald Trump’s controversial decision to hold a 10-minute phone call with Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, was caused by the billionaire’s lack of foreign policy experience, a mouthpiece for the Chinese government has claimed.
In an editorial published on Sunday, the China Daily, a state-run English-language newspaper, said the affair had “exposed nothing but his and his transition team’s inexperience in dealing with foreign affairs”.
Many had predicted that the call – the first known contact of its kind in almost four decades – would elicit a ferocious response from China’s leaders, who regard Taiwan as a
Austria may be about to elect Europe's first far-right leader since Hitler
Norbert Hofer says Islam "has no place in Austria" as it poses a threat to the country's Judeo-Christian and humanist values
An anti-immigration and Eurosceptic candidate is hoping to become the first far-right European head of state since Adolf Hitler in a re-run of the Austrian presidential election.
Norbert Hofer, a member of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPOe), is competing against the independent economist Alexander Van der Bellen - who is backed by the Green party.
Hofer, a 45-year-old former aeronautical engineer, moved the emphasis from the FPOe's often xenophobic agenda to one highlighting social inequality.
Ex-Astronaut Talks Asteroids'It Is Only a Matter of Time Until a Big One Hits'
European nations are currently deciding the future of an international program to prepare for the threat of asteroid impact. Former Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart fears that a hit could wipe out intelligence life on Earth. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke to him about his concerns.
Interview Conducted by Christoph Seidler
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mr. Schweickart, mankind currently has a lot of problems to deal with: climate change, civil wars, deadly infections. And you want to save the Earth from asteroids. Aren't there more important things to do?
Schweickart: I am interested in climate change and other topics too. But this thing is so huge, in the worst case we are talking about the end of our civilization. In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important than asteroids. Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios. But we can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or.
Indonesians rally for unity after blasphemy protests
Crowds gather in Jakarta in response to protests against city's Christian governor who is accused of blasphemy.
Tens of thousands of Indonesians have rallied in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, calling for tolerance and unity after massive protests were held against the city's Christian governor.
The crowds on Sunday filled a major traffic circle in Jakarta and sprawled into its main thoroughfares, waving "We Are Indonesia" signs and a giant red-and-white national flag was held aloft.
The rally was held in response to protests against Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who is being prosecuted for alleged blasphemy.
Where next for Brazil's embattled president?
Having assumed the presidency in May following the impeachment of his predecessor, Michel Temer has made some inroads into his reform agenda, but the political storm assailing his government poses a growing threat.
When he officially became president three months ago, Michel Temer’s game plan was simple and bold: In the roughly eighteen months before the 2018 presidential campaign ramped up, he would undertake a variety of legislative reforms that would put the government’s accounts back on track, enhance investor confidence, stimulate an economic recovery, and possibly set the stage for a center-right presidential bid (if not by Temer himself, at least by a close ally).
Temer’s band of advisors – Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) stalwarts and long-time Brasília hands Romero Jucá, Geddel Vieira Lima, Eliseu Padilha, and Moreira Franco – would ensure that he had the backing of Congress to push through reforms that might not bring immediate returns, but nonetheless might improve investor confidence, prompting new investments in the short term. Sotto voce, many politicians also assumed that the PMDB – which has been an integral player in every government since the return to democracy in 1985 – would be well placed to slow the pace of the bloodletting occasioned by the massive Lava Jato [Car Wash] investigation and stabilize the political system.
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