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Marc Champion
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FROM Marc Champion
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Victory for Turkey's Ruling Party Turkey has re-elected Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, but he'll need a political coalition to write a new constitution. While Erdogan is wildly popular among the country's poor and the Muslim middle class, secular Turks in urban centers worry about his party, the AKP, and what it could mean for their country. Marc Champion, who's covering the election for the Wall Street Journal , considers the possible changes in a secular state now ruled by an Islamic party.
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The Trump agenda: where's the beef? President Trump says big things are happening. After celebrating a House bill on health care, he doesn’t yet have Senate agreement. With James Comey’s public testimony scheduled tomorrow, the President today tweeted his selection of a new FBI Director. Is the Chief Executive all style and no substance? Later, terror attacks in Iran and conflicting claims about who’s behind them.
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The longest US war: Will Trump send more troops to Afghanistan? The Trump White House is divided over the Pentagon's request for more troops in Afghanistan—where the US has been fighting for the past 16 years. Is there a formula -- either for "victory" or a political settlement? Is there an end in sight for America's longest war?
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Janesville and the American Dream Janesville, Wisconsin is the hometown of Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. But he couldn’t prevent the closing of the General Motors factory after 100 years. On this Memorial Day rebroadcast of To the Point, we hear what’s happened to what once was a model of American middle-class unity.