The entirety of the White House East Wing appears to have been knocked down, photos published Thursday show, as President Donald Trump moves swiftly ahead with plans to construct a massive new ballroom.

The people who pushed the narratives of national reconciliation in the decades after Reconstruction weren’t Southerners. It was a bunch of New Jersey academics at Princeton. Woodrow Wilson, although born in Virginia, very much a man of the Mid-Atlantic, you might say.

As US President Donald Trump visits South-East Asia amid global trade tensions, Indonesian exporters worry the region could bear the brunt of his protectionist policies.