Even more than in his first term, President Trump has mounted a fundamental challenge to the norms and expectations of what a president can and should do.

"I'd like him to take people. I'd like Egypt to take people," said Trump. "You're talking about, probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, 'You know it's, over.'"

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in Sunday’s election that is rejected by the opposition as a farce after years of sweeping repressions

Explaining the Right is a weekly series that looks at what the right wing is currently obsessing over, how it influences politics—and why you need to know. Donald Trump spent his first week in office using the power of the presidency to attack decades of actions to promote diversity. Trump issued executive orders rolling back desegregation orders, instructing government offices that promote diver…

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