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This week saw the historic, unlikely meeting of a U.S. president and a leader of North Korea — a moment that felt less likely than nuclear war only a few months ago.
In OtherWords, Lindsay Koshgarian says that if Trump is giving diplomacy a chance, his critics should, too — but adds that the president himself will have to take diplomacy a lot more seriously than he has to date....

Some critics have knocked President Trump for making “too many concessions” to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the historic Singapore Summit — the first-ever meeting between a U.S. president and North Korean leader.
Trump’s foreign policy instincts have had me white-knuckled for the past year and a half. But against a backdrop of possible nuclear war, it would be overly cynical not to recognize the meeting’s potential for good....

Are we Americans unworthy? That’s certainly the message we’re getting from our government.
Over 40 percent of us are poor or low-income. How is that possible in the wealthiest country in history?
“The United States is alone among developed countries in insisting that while human rights are of fundamental importance,” explains UN rapporteur on poverty Philip Alston, “they do not include rights that guard against dying of hunger, dying from a lack...

Before all the North Korea news hit, the last few weeks seemed to show another surprising turnaround for President Trump: some sympathy for criminal justice reform.
After a visit from Kim Kardashian, the president commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a great-grandmother serving a life sentence for a first time, non-violent drug offense. Then he said he’d reach out to the NFL players taking a knee to protest...