Trump vs. Humanitarianism


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This week, with Myanmar’s military continuing its brutal campaign against the Rohingya, one of the country’s Muslim minority groups, President Trump reaffirmed an “America First” foreign policy in his speech before the U.N. General Assembly. Philip Gourevitch joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the troubling recent history of the U.N. and the U.S. in humanitarian interventions, and the dangers of Trump’s policy of disengagement.