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As someone who ate up All The President’s Men and the Watergate scandal as a child, and covered the Barack Obama White House decades later as a journalist, Donald Trump’s erratic presidency has been nothing if not utterly enthralling. Especially this week, with details of Bob Woodward’s book emerging and an astonishing New York Times op-ed written by an anonymous senior official in the Trump
administration. And unlike Watergate, Canada’s been dragged prominently into the drama this time around.
If you’re on the edge of your seat as I am, you’ll enjoy this collection of weekend reads from around The Conversation network on the latest Trump news and how it could affect NAFTA, a trade pact critical to Canada’s economic well-being and yet in serious jeopardy due partly to Trump’s vagaries.
We’ll also have another NAFTA story publishing tomorrow on how a renegotiated deal could have a big impact on proposals for a national pharmacare program. You won’t want to miss it.
Enjoy, and we’ll be back in your inbox on Monday.
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Mexico, Canada and the United States are struggling to agree on new NAFTA terms.
Reuters/Rebecca Cook
Christina Fattore, West Virginia University
A political scientist explains why corporate lobbyists and other interest groups will thwart Trump's efforts to strong-arm or ignore Canada.
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Improved access to Canada’s dairy market for American producers is one of the key unresolved NAFTA issues.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Michael von Massow, University of Guelph
Canada and the United States are back at the table to try to save NAFTA negotiations. Two key issues need to be resolved.
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Donald Trump doesn’t liked to be reined in, which is why he has such a problem with trade deals like NAFTA.
(The Associated Press)
William A. Kerr, University of Saskatchewan
Part of the purpose of trade deals is to prevent politicians from inserting politics into matters of commerce. Donald Trump is bucking that trend. What does it mean for Canada and NAFTA?
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U.S. President Donald Trump greets supporters in Iowa in July 2018. Why do so many people still support Trump amid a slew of scandals and demonstrably false statements?
(Eileen Meslar/Telegraph Herald via AP)
Nicolas Bencherki, L'Université TÉLUQ ; Joelle Basque, L'Université TÉLUQ
Experts wonder why Donald Trump remains so popular despite his eyebrow-raising statements. The answer may lie in the way he tells stories.
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Somebody say something.
EPA/Shawn Thew
Andre Spicer, City, University of London
Quietly fighting from within is just one way for staffers to rein in an out-of-control leader.
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The 25th Amendment defines what happens if a president is ‘unable’ to discharge his duties.
Brian Kalt, Michigan State University
If the vice president and Cabinet decide that the president cannot discharge the powers and duties of his office, they can displace him.
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President Donald Trump, August 30, 2018.
Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
Bandy X. Lee, Yale University
Revelations about the president's behavior in a new book and an unsigned op-ed, writes a Yale psychiatrist, support what she and mental health specialists have warned: Trump is dangerously unstable.
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Bob Woodward arrives at Trump Tower, January 2017.
EPA/Albin Lohr-Jones
Robert E Gutsche Jr, Lancaster University
Bob Woodward's supposedly explosive findings about Trump are not what we need.
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