Overall, Americans are not pleased with President Trump’s performance on foreign policy: 50 percent grade him as “poor” against 37 percent as “good,” and on a range of foreign-policy topics, he is only above water on stopping “international drug trafficking.”
David Dayen
David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power and Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud. He co-hosts the podcast Organized Money with Matt Stoller.
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The Electric Bill Election
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California Democrats Win Redistricting Measure, Prove That Resistance Works
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Trump Lost the Politics of the Shutdown
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‘Progressive’ Tech Group Asks Trump to Block AI Copyright Cases
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The Flaw in Trump’s MAGA Media Empire Plot
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Trump Selling Out Cattle Ranchers Highlights Structural Food Economy Crisis
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Here’s What Trump’s Ballroom Donors Want
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Politicians Aren’t Heroes
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