Donald Trump has pressed fast forward on the decline of the United States as a global power. ... He will cede that power to China and Russia -- two authoritarian states that will forge a very different set of rules for the 21st century.
President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it.
The meeting was also attended by his campaign chairman at the time, Paul J. Manafort, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Mr. Manafort and Mr. Kushner only recently disclosed the meeting, though not its content, in confidential government documents described to The New York Times.
Yesterday Trump Jr said the meeting was about adoption.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 9, 2017
A few months ago he denied that a meeting like this ever happened https://t.co/zECebf5Wfc
JULY 7, 2017 —Imagine that you’re driving through a residential area when your brakes fail. Directly in your path is a group of five jaywalkers. The only place to swerve is onto the sidewalk, where a pedestrian is waiting for the signal to change.
Who do you run over, the five jaywalkers or the one law-abiding citizen?
That’s a familiar problem to Tom Thompson, owner of Star Cleaning Systems in Columbus, Ohio. He is looking to add two or three part-time workers to his 20-member staff.
“Very few people show up for interviews, and if they do, they don’t show up for the job,” Mr. Thompson said. “I’m spending 80 to 90 percent of my time recruiting. I triple-book appointments for interviews, and I’m lucky if I get one person to show up.”
He is offering $9.25 an hour to start, with bonuses and increases for workers who stick around. Running a new company, he said, he cannot afford to pay significantly more.
The circular structure has not only nearly three million square feet of office space but also about three million square feet devoted to parking spaces.
Each month we're learning that the labor market has greater capacity than we had previously understood. https://t.co/iKH2ZX3yJR
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) July 7, 2017
Our own fight for the West does not begin on the battlefield -- it begins with our minds, our wills, and our souls. Today, the ties that unite our civilization are no less vital, and demand no less defense, than that bare shred of land on which the hope of Poland once totally rested. Our freedom, our civilization, and our survival depend on these bonds of history, culture, and memory.
It is worth reading Trump's speech in Poland today. It's one of his better ones.https://t.co/CGsJuMf9tQ
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) July 6, 2017
