My mother was Chinese Malay and my father Australian. In a typical United Nations love story, they met in Zambia, married in Malawi, and I was born in New York.
The Back Story
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There’s no doubt that success in rural and working-class white America was critical to Trump’s victory. However, far less attention has been spent on suburban America, whose college-educated white voters (especially white women) were supposed to provide Clinton a bulwark to big losses among rural voters.
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In Washington, we all know there’s the story we see in the headlines and then there’s the behind-the-scenes, inside-the-Beltway insight – the back story. That’s why we’ll have a recurring column featuring a prediction, insight, or Beltway perspective – from you, our readers.
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In this edition’s Back Story, Newsweek’s Matt Cooper poses a question for President-elect Trump.