This week Erin, Loren, and Radha read the G20 tea leaves, opine on continued chaos in Afghanistan, and remind you about all the White House mayhem from Saudi politics to a Moscow Trump Tower. Radha gets way too excited about USMCA (pronounced U-Smack-Ah) and all things trade before the ladies round some pop culture.

Keeping Up Foreign Relations

Afghanistan

  • Rahim Faiez, "At Least 40 People Killed in Deadly 24 Hours Across Afghanistan," TIME
  • John Bacon, "3 American service members killed in Afghanistan roadside bombing," USA Today
  • Jessica Purkiss and Abigail Fielding-Smith, "Uptick in U.S. Air Strikes on Buildings in Afghanistan Raises Questions," Just Security

Ukraine

  • Andrew Higgins, "Ukraine, on a War Footing, Looks Westward for Help," New York Times
  • Andrew Osborn, "Citing Russia threat, Ukraine boosts security at ports, power plants," Reuters
  • Alex Ward, "Russia just openly attacked Ukraine. That could mean their war will get worse." Vox

It's Aghast
G20

  • "US-China trade war: Deal agreed to suspend new trade tariffs," BBC
  • Krishanadev Calamur, "The G20 Communique Bookends the George H.W. Bush Era," Atlantic
  • "Perceptible improvement in India-China relations, say Modi and Xi on G20 sidelines," India Today

USMCA

  • Jen Kirby, "USMCA, the new trade deal between the US, Canada, and Mexico, explained," Vox

White House Mayhem
Yemen

  • Jordan Tama, "Why is the Senate challenging Trump on Yemen? Here's what you need to know." Washington Post
  • Scott R. Anderson, "Taking Stock of the Yemen Resolution," Lawfare

New START
Joe Gould, "US lawmakers tangle over nuclear arsenal, Russia treaties," Defense News

L'Affaire Russe

  • John McLaughlin, Tweet
  • Emma Loop, "The House Intelligence Committee Will Investigate Trump's Company's Plan To Give Putin A $50 Million Penthouse," BuzzFeed News
  • Anthony Cormier and Jason Leopold, "The Definitive Story Of How Trump's Team Worked The Trump Moscow Deal During The Campaign," BuzzFeed News

Border

  • Emily Kopp, "Immigration Experts: Tear Gas Has Been Used at the Border for Years, But Never on Children," Roll Call
  • Government Shutdown
  • Niv Elis, "Border wall bickering raises odds of shutdown," Hill
  • Michael Collins, "Another government shutdown? Congress has a week to pass a spending bill to keep the lights on," USA Today

Pop Culture

  • Orli Matlow, "Woman's fake viral pic with Michael B. Jordan turned into reality. Anything is possible!" Someecards
  • Owen Gleiberman, "Film Review: 'The Favourite,'" Variety

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