Two Stories to Be Thankful For in a Year Full of Turkeys

Two Stories to Be Thankful For in a Year Full of Turkeys
President Donald Trump with first lady Melania Trump, gives “Peas,” one of the National Thanksgiving Turkeys, an absolute pardon during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington, Nov. 20, 2018 (AP photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta).

In this week’s special Thanksgiving edition of the Trend Lines podcast, WPR’s editor-in-chief, Judah Grunstein, and managing editor, Frederick Deknatel, discuss two stories from the past year they were thankful for: a congressional check on U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive powers and, counterintuitively, the tensions that Trump has introduced into the trans-Atlantic alliance.

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