Trump Has Lost Working Class White Voters

Gideon Rachman: “Donald Trump has a perverse genius for driving American adversaries to discover new forms of leverage over the US. His trade war with China persuaded Beijing to exploit…

“Republicans are considering reductions in federal health spending to help pay for a budget bill containing as much as $200 billion to fund the Iran war and immigration enforcement,” Axios…

Robert Kagan: “Whenever and however America’s war with Iran ends, it has both exposed and exacerbated the dangers of our new, fractured, multipolar reality—driving deeper wedges between the United States…

Spain closed its airspace to American flights involved in its military operation in Iran, expanding an effort to distance itself from the conflict, Bloomberg reports. Save to Favorites

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Monday that the U.S.’s 15-point list for halting the conflict contains “largely excessive, unrealistic, and unreasonable demands,” contradicting U.S. President Trump’s earlier claims…

Washington Post: “Allies and partners of the United States in Asia are steeling themselves for what they see as the nightmare scenario of a long American war in the Middle…

Bloomberg: “The biggest oil supply shock in history has reached the one-month mark. Prices have surged, growth forecasts are being cut worldwide, and shortages are emerging across Asia, from Thailand…

Financial Times: “Over four decades, Iran has built what it calls a ‘resistance economy,’ designed to withstand conflict, sanctions and hostility with nations near and far.” “The Islamic republic manufactures…

Playbook: “Trump’s private conversations and public statements reveal a president taking a highly unusual twin-track approach to war — pursuing both a rapid exit from a conflict that he knows…