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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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Trump's new look at civil rights and global warming President Trump is reportedly ready to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. We look at the possible consequences. On the second half of the program, we hear about cuts in Obama-Era civil rights programs called for by the Trump Administration's first budget plan.
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Terrorism and tweets, hate speech and murder Just days before an election, Britain is coping with a rash of deadly terrorism, and Prime Minister Theresa May is on the defensive. And again today, President Trump has tweeted criticism of the Mayor of London. Later, a double murder in Portland, Oregon has revealed the ugly past of a supposedly “progressive” city. One immediate question: is “hate speech” protected by the First Amendment?
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What happens when America retreats from the world? Is President Trump taking his "America First" agenda to extremes, withdrawing the country from the international stage on trade and climate change, distancing America from its traditional allies across the Atlantic and even threatening to physically isolate the country through the building of a wall along its southern border? León Krauze guest hosts.