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After Iowa and New Hampshire, what's next for the Democratic race?

202

Will House Dems' infrastructure plan yield results?

203

Is Trump's State of the Union a roadmap for 2020?

204

Brexit Day is here. What happens next?

205

What does Trump's Middle East plan mean for Israel and Palestine?

206

What does Putin's government shakeup mean for his role in Russia?

207

Will the new US-China trade deal end the trade war?

208

What does Taiwan's presidential election mean for relations with China?

209

How will Iran respond to US assassination of Soleimani?

210

The president has been impeached. Now what?

211

What happened at the UN climate change summit?

212

What does Boris Johnson's victory mean for the UK and Brexit?

213

What is the US doing on climate change?

214

What does Netanyahu's indictment mean for Israel?

215

What does the Gannett-GateHouse merger mean for local journalism?

216

What did the Trump-Erdoğan meeting accomplish?

217

What did ASEAN meetings reveal about US engagement in Southeast Asia?

218

What's next after the impeachment process vote?

219

How can Chile resolve public frustration and mass protests?

220

What does the GM auto workers' strike tell us about the strength of unions?

221

What's spurring the mass protests in Lebanon?

222

What's the latest on Brexit?

223

What's driving anti-government protests in Iraq?

224

What are the politics of impeachment?

225

Why is the Trump-Ukraine whistleblower complaint so important?

226

Is Netanyahu out as Israel's prime minister?

227

What does suspension of UK's Parliament mean for Brexit?

228

What do the Amazon fires mean for Brazil's economic future?

229

Why does President Trump think the US can buy Greenland?

230

After the prime minister's resignation, what's next for Italy?

231

Is China really manipulating its currency?

232

Will the INF Treaty's demise kick-start a new arms race?

233

What did the Pakistani prime minister's visit with Trump achieve?

234

What does a new UN report reveal about global hunger and obesity?

235

With Acosta's resignation, how is high turnover affecting the administration?

236

What does the debate over school segregation reveal about the Democratic primary field?

237

How will Christine Lagarde lead the European Central Bank?

238

Will protests in Hong Kong continue?

239

What does the Supreme Court decision on citizenship status mean for the 2020 census?

240

Will the Bahrain workshop lead to progress on Middle East peace?

241

What does Mohammed Morsi's death mean for Egypt?

242

What's on the agenda for Italian Deputy PM Salvini's US visit?

243

Will new documents sway the Supreme Court on Census citizenship question?

244

How will the Continental Free Trade Area transform Africa?

245

What do the European Parliament election results tell us about EU politics?

246

What does PM Modi's landslide win mean for India?

247

Is the US on a collision course with Iran?

248

Is breaking up Facebook the best option?

249

Why is the Trump administration pushing to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorists?

250

Can the administration and Congress move forward on $2 trillion infrastructure plan?

251

After the Mueller report, will President Trump be impeached?

252

Introducing The Current

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The Trump administration's new challenge to the Affordable Care Act

254

Why did Democrats choose Milwaukee for 2020 DNC convention?

255

Is Trump's 2020 defense budget excessive?

256

Lessons from the second Trump-Kim summit

257

Netanyahu to be indicted for bribery. What's next?

258

Is Nigeria's presidential election result valid?

259

Can Congress stop Trump's national emergency declaration?

260

Is the Green New Deal biting off too much?

261

Who is David Malpass, Trump's nominee for World Bank President?

262

What the demise of the INF treaty means

263

Why Trump ended the shutdown – for now

264

Can Venezuela's new president restore democracy?

265

An update on trans-Atlantic relations

266

A federal judge ruled against the census citizenship question. What's next?

267

Can Trump declare a national emergency to build a border wall?

268

Will Trump and Congress shut down the government?

269

President Trump's mad dash out of Syria

270

Why the Senate went against Trump on Yemen

271

How will political strife in Israel impact Trump's 'Deal of the Century'?

272

Trump-Macron spat exposes clashing US-French interests

273

The facts about the 'migrant caravan'

274

Unpacking Trump's threat to terminate birthright citizenship

275

The consequences of US withdrawal from the INF treaty

276

How North Dakota is keeping Native Americans from voting in the midterms

277

How is the latest Ebola outbreak in the DRC different than the others?

278

Will the Khashoggi crisis create an oil war?

279

The Supreme Court will decide if a citizenship question on the US census is legal

280

The lasting impact of Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation

281

After Nikki Haley, what's next for the UN?

282

Did the jobs report show good news?

283

Is the U.S. walking away from the World Court over Iran?

284

Did Trump avoid paying taxes? Voters won't like it.

285

Could Melania Trump's visit to Africa repair US-Africa relations?

286

Will Kavanaugh be confirmed? It's up to these five senators and the FBI

287

In UN speech, Trump's 'America First' hurts global human rights

288

The U.S.-China trade war won't be ending soon

289

What's next for the Kavanaugh hearings?

290

Trump cuts refugee admissions to a historic low

291

Have US counterterrorism efforts improved since 9/11?

292

Why Trump won't be removed by the 25th Amendment

293

Senate Democrats' strategy on Kavanaugh

294

The US and Mexico make NAFTA progress, but where's Canada?

295

Arming teachers won't improve school safety

296

Trump tries to cut foreign aid without Congress

297

New tariffs escalate the US-China trade war

298

The legal threat Michael Cohen poses for President Trump

299

How the Manafort and Cohen news could impact the midterm elections

300

Is it unconstitutional for Trump to revoke John Brennan's security clearance?