Conjuring up Watergate as clouds darken over Trump administration
This town often gets way ahead of the game, but the credentials of some conjuring up the dark days of Watergate are not to be sneezed at.
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Paul McGeough
Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
'Instinctive correctness' a new term for Donald Trump's stance on Michael Flynn
First, they brought us fake news; and then, alternative facts. Now, compliments of the Trump administration, we bring you "instinctive correctness".
Michael Flynn a dramatic early casualty in Trump administration
Donald Trump's embattled national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned late on Monday, a dramatic early casualty in an administration hobbled by security chaos and confusion.
Trump's security adviser in trouble over calls to Russian envoy
FBI is reportedly investigating Michael Flynn's communications with the Russian envoy.
As Trump pivots, his administration gets a reality check
Funny thing, reality. Trump was so in the face of his opponents and the world, that his volte-faces are historically spectacular.
Trump's war on the law that prevents another GFC
In the ructions over Trump's migration crackdown, the President's doing away with the Dodd-Frank Act and the Fiduciary Rule has garnered little attention.
In times of Trump, retailers are damned if they do and damned if they don't
These are scary days for big-named American businesses – if they stock Trump products, they can incur the wrath of a consumer boycott that is turbocharged by the power of social media; but if they drop the presidential brands, they incur the wrath of the Tweeter-in-Chief.
Rex Tillerson cleans up Donald Trump's mess in Australia, Japan and South Korea
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Tuesday said her conversation with Tillerson could not have been warmer.
Trump lawyer proposes travel ban compromise in appeals court
Justice Department lawyer August Flentje insisted the executive order was within the US President's power.
The madness of Donald Trump's attack on the media
Just as Donald Trump has declared he'll hold accountable the media that attempts to hold him accountable, it follows that respect for the presidency requires respectable conduct by the president.
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