Coalitions become harder to form and often include strange bedfellows.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows, but so too do common enemies.
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Critic's Notebook HAMBURG, Germany — Opera and philosophy make strange bedfellows.
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The ongoing crisis in Puerto Rico is making some strange bedfellows.
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It's the 21st century version of politics making for strange bedfellows.
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This leaves the country in a small group of strange bedfellows.
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As we both know, the Trump presidency makes for strange bedfellows.
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We live in an era of fake news and strange bedfellows.
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Dire crises sometimes have a funny way of creating strange bedfellows.
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In the world of enterprise software, there are often strange bedfellows.
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Murphy, in a case of politics making strange bedfellows, seemed to agree.
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For the politics makes strange bedfellows file: Bernie Sanders and Karl Rove!
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That's a case of strange bedfellows not many people could have predicted.
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Politics, and especially foreign policy, has always been the realm of strange bedfellows.
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Politics often makes strange bedfellows, but this is no mere marriage of convenience.
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Potentially prurient content presents a tricky political situation that often results in strange bedfellows.
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That's also set the stage for some seemingly strange bedfellows of convenience — for now.
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And yet, pop music and the symphony may still seem, initially, like strange bedfellows.
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The issue has made strange bedfellows of privacy-focused Democrats and libertarian-leaning Republicans.
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But that's the beauty of ideological alliances: They make enthusiastic partners out of strange bedfellows.
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The Madkhalists make strange bedfellows of Mr Haftar, who claims to be fighting Islamist terror.
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Yes, Reddit and Tencent are strange bedfellows, but that's exactly the point of venture capital.
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They are strange bedfellows, this pair of old men who have steered the country since 286.
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These are all strange bedfellows, but so, once, were Bey and Jay as a romantic pair.
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Are you thinking that cerebral joker Jim Halpert and Boom-Boom Bay make for strange bedfellows?
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"Politics makes strange bedfellows, and this certainly has been true for school choice politics," Valant noted.
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This was politics at its finest: when strange bedfellows operated in support of legislation, albeit imperfect.
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But the strange bedfellows of this issue may be causing legal analysts to underestimate its chances.
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If cake shaped like previously sworn enemies and current strange bedfellows can't bring people together, what can?
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The "old guard" and the Pentecostal/Charismatic wing make for strange bedfellows when it comes to theology.
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At first blush, Elon Musk and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia may appear to be strange bedfellows.
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Meditation and bondage might seem like strange bedfellows, but they actually pair together like milk and cookies.
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As sports betting moves out of the shadows in the United States, strange bedfellows might be exposed.
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"Sometimes politics makes for strange bedfellows," Corbin told me by email, when I asked about the payment.
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Consumer culture and feminism have always been strange bedfellows, with the former tending to overpower the latter.
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Even by the usual standards of politics, this election's campaign against marijuana legalization has made strange bedfellows.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows, and some of Yang's supporters seem to have plenty of room in their beds.
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Yet the array of threats facing the fossil fuel industry in 2020 could make for other strange bedfellows.
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The monster threat posed by Amazon is making for some strange bedfellows in the tech and retail worlds.
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But local politics make for strange bedfellows, and, more importantly, partisan divides can disintegrate at a small scale.
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First, it is endorsed by notoriously strange bedfellows who have traditionally battled over competing visions for these herds.
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Doctor Strange and The Beatles may seem like strange bedfellows, but there's actually a curious, fortuitous connection between them.
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In last week's installment, "Strange Bedfellows," entourage member Kennedy is punched in the face during Hakeem's club-hopping birthday.
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The celebrated, strange-bedfellows partnership between Obama White House officials and Koch Industries was actually born at that summit.
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Becky Quick: To somebody who wasn't paying attention, maybe the casual observer, you two might seem like strange bedfellows.
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It would be hard to find these "strange bedfellows" all together in Washington without a subpoena in the mix.
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The tangled state of affairs has made for strange bedfellows, and has helped to forge occasional alliances between companies.
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With much work left to do, there may be no better time for strange bedfellows, in Congress and out.
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I know politics make strange bedfellows, but he said he and Mitt Romney have kind of calmed things down.
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What's fomenting the conspiracy world of Mr. Trump and company, as well as their strange bedfellows, the alt-right?
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The conversation Iran, impeachment and Iowa are making for some strange bedfellows, just the way politics is supposed to.
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The three nations of North America may make up the Nafta trade bloc but are strange bedfellows these days.
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This means that our parties will always be loose coalitions, "big tents," or broad umbrellas that typically include strange bedfellows.
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But the two mythologies — anti-Communist paranoia and anti-gay panic — fused in the American imagination and became strange bedfellows.
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In other news, a controversial US Census question creates some strange bedfellows, and a "blockchain bandit" is pilfering millions in cryptocurrency.
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The old cliche that politics makes strange bedfellows is being tossed around a lot, thanks to the rise of Donald Trump.
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The first is that Trump's border wall is making strange bedfellows of human rights-loving liberals and property rights-loving conservatives.
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"Money makes strange bedfellows, and it has a way of taking shit and molding it into a golden goose," Tito said.
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The proposal is being pushed by a coalition of strange bedfellows that includes corporations, environmental groups, former Republican politicians and economists.
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On occasion, financially successful artists (along with affluent non-artists and/or art dealers) made strange bedfellows with owners against certain manufacturers.
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Toddlers and high design may seem like strange bedfellows, but there is nothing for children to break or destroy in the garden.
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Reform has been backed by a strange-bedfellows alliance of conservative and progressive interest groups and many big-city law enforcement officials.
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In linking the fate of the civil rights movement to Wallace's speech, she reminds us that the Constitution makes for strange bedfellows.
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It passed with overwhelming bipartisan support from a coalition of strange bedfellows, including the AFL-CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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Reform is backed by a strange-bedfellows alliance of conservative and progressive interest groups and by many big-city law enforcement officials.
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Certainly sex and consumerism are no strange bedfellows, but in Rhoades's work, the relationship is rendered in an ad hoc, haphazard, illogical form.
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This was a big change for a religious minority that tended to have conservative views: traditionalist Muslims and LBGT advocates are strange bedfellows.
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Other echoes of the first Cold War include strange bedfellows, uneasy alliances, and plenty of proxy wars where a lot of people die.
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The guns for mentally ill bill is being supported by strange bedfellows that give supporters strong political cover and helps earn brownie points.
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The Republican Party's Islamophobia has turned Democrats and Muslims into strange bedfellows, while also masking differences that have emerged since the 22016 election.
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Opposition to that largesse has made strange bedfellows out of New York City Democrats Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) and New York Gov.
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A blend of the two ideas — concern for the environment and investment in infrastructure — might yield a surprisingly positive alliance of strange bedfellows.
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Still, without those distractions, Trump's populism and aggressive anti-trade push could create strange bedfellows and swing some blue states into his corner.
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Libertarian-leaning conservatives and egalitarian liberals need to forge strange-bedfellows coalitions to tackle policies that are simultaneously bad for growth and inequality.
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Yet, it's not the first time the strange bedfellows' polar partisan positions have merged in the debate over national security and foreign affairs.
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Trump's hostile takeover of the Republican Party over the last three years -- and the party's capitulation to it -- has made for strange bedfellows.
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This will mean that political Islamic groups, such as the IRGC or Brotherhood, will find themselves to be strange bedfellows against common adversaries.
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But one thing is certain—the top-two primary has disrupted the voting process and brought together strange bedfellows who rarely agree on anything.
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So when land and property rights come under threat, they make for strange bedfellows of human rights loving liberals and private property loving conservatives.
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As big institutions go green, it can make for strange bedfellows, like some of Goldsteins clients who were carried into the Goldman Sachs fold.
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The China dispute certainly makes for strange bedfellows, with Trump facing calls from allies on Wall Street and free-trade conservatives to reach a deal.
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Of course, as a longtime tech industry observer, I have also found it interesting to think of the strange bedfellows new car technologies could create.
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Climate advocates and oil companies make strange bedfellows, but history is filled with unlikely and short-lived alliances that formed to fight a common cause.
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It's almost certain that any move would face legal challenges from a strange bedfellows group of interests ranging from consumer groups to natural-gas producers.
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But this time, the line is blurred and strange bedfellows have emerged with each new estimate of how the House and Senate would undermine Medicaid.
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Others will involve more traditional retail politics, or building strange-bedfellows coalitions with people on the right who are frustrated and angry at Donald Trump.
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Politics, the saying goes, makes for strange bedfellows, but I do hope fellow Trump loyalist Tom Brady sends Rex a nice Make America Great Again hat.
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The arrangement makes for strange bedfellows, as the folks who drive trucks and those in cutting-edge computer science tend to live worlds apart, culturally speaking.
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Certain that arch-capitalist Britain was his country's foremost enemy, he clung to his strange-bedfellows partnership with Germany long after Hitler had abandoned the arrangement.
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So I do think that you'll see interesting coalitions being made, both industry interest and ideological interest, that may create some strange bedfellows on these issues.
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Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle If Mario and friends seemed like strange bedfellows with Ubisoft's nubby little rabbids, weirder still is the type of game they're starring in.
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This is because the 1985 farm bill was passed by a "strange bedfellows" coalition in which urban and rural districts joined forces in pursuit of redistributive benefits.
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For an issue that strengthens national security while delivering an economic upside, the strange bedfellows of elected officials uniting on this issue aren't likely to back down.
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It's a position that makes strange bedfellows, pitting hedge funds and consumer advocates against groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which strongly objects to the practice.
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We all know that politics makes strange bedfellows, but the events of the last couple of days leave even the most politically savvy analysts scratching their heads.
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The companies Mr. Goodman endorsed were a motley assortment, strange bedfellows for a man who made his bones at one of the country's most respected financial publications.
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She borrowed and combined elements from two — Victoriana and the Bauhaus, strange bedfellows — and doubled down on the elaborate printing and embellishment that has become her signature.
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HANS MATTESPetaluma, California The parents of the students who refused to take Trump supporters as roommates should be asking for their tuition back ("Strange bedfellows", July 20th).
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Perhaps a streetwear brand and a pornography website seem like strange bedfellows for the fashion industry, but Pornhub also collaborated with Hood by Air a few seasons ago.
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She characterized Mr. Trump as a singular menace and reinforced the point by highlighting her campaign's strange-bedfellows-support from longtime Republicans who were horrified by Mr. Trump.
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Mr. Paul pressed for the repeal vote, in a strange bedfellows alliance with Senator Tim Kaine, the Virginia Democrat who was his party's vice-presidential nominee last year.
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The farm bill has, especially in the scholarly discussions of American politics over the past 20133 years, been held up as a classic example of "strange bedfellows" in politics.
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" Strange bedfellows: The press and the political parties, tied together since birth By Susan Campbell, July 26, 2016 "For better or worse, the press and politics remain intrinsically tied.
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This week more than 85033 influential leaders from our "strange bedfellows" coalition from around the country will come together in our nation's capital for the USGLC's State Leaders Summit.
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A combination of Confederate and freak flags fly above it—they make strange bedfellows, of course, but find common ground in the intoxication levels of the people flying them.
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Like many tech privacy issues, the Rule 41 change has made strange bedfellows on Capitol Hill, uniting civil libertarians from the right with privacy advocates on the left. Sen.
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"While we may seem like strange bedfellows, we all want the same thing: to end hazing so other parents don't have to experience what we have," Jim Piazza said.
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In January, the 60-person firm agreed to sell itself to BitGo, a San Francisco tech startup, making for strange bedfellows, even in an industry full of unexpected players.
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The long game The national health debate remains mostly focused on repealing Obamacare, but there are signs that if Republican efforts fail, progressives could find new and strange bedfellows.
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In this uncertain time of global restructuring, as longstanding alliances deteriorate and strange bedfellows find common cause, the bonds of cross-border scientific collaboration are more crucial than ever.
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In Yemen, the party associated with the Brotherhood has formed a strange-bedfellows alliance with Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. to battle a common enemy, the Iranian-backed Houthis.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LONDON — K-pop and contemporary art may seem like strange bedfellows, but as of late they have been getting more and more friendly.
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Today in strange bedfellows: The ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus share enthusiasm for the same bill — an infrastructure package with bipartisan and pan-ideological enthusiasm.
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"It is representative of the strange bedfellows that the interaction of the U.S. and Chinese technology systems creates," said Adam Segal, a cybersecurity expert at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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With strange bedfellows emerging like New York magazine's Andrew Sullivan and a collective of French women, it is little wonder the #MeToo backlash has become associated with an older generation.
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There's really no way this alliance lasts once the High Sparrow has been deposed, but on Game of Thrones, it's not politics so much as war that makes strange bedfellows.
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These women were championed by an array of strange bedfellows: feminists like Eleanor Smeal, celebrities like Lily Tomlin and stalwarts of a conservative administration like Laura Bush and Dick Cheney.
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Crumb and company continue to attract strange bedfellows nearly thirty years after Weirdo published one final anthology, further shedding light on the darker, uglier, stranger side of the human condition.
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His reticence to reach for the military option in some cases has made him a champion of the anti-interventionist right, who have also found strange bedfellows in the antiwar left.
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A group opposing drug pricing measures around the country includes major pharmaceutical companies as well as large construction-industry unions, the New York Times reports — strange bedfellows, to say the least.
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It's not between left and right -- there are actually a number of crossover issues right now that have found strange bedfellows among Democrats and Republicans, criminal justice reform being just one.
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The mission was to capture the genre's live-show energy on record, and also to transform a hit rock song released by Aerosmith in 1975 into a strange-bedfellows crossover duet.
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I wrote a piece in August 2015, about six weeks after Trump declared his candidacy, noting what strange bedfellows he and the white working class are and why they work so well.
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M&M have had strange bedfellows before, but this plucky comedy will remind us that nothing is stranger than getting by on a wing and prayer (to the Lord of Light Comedy).
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In the post recommending the book, the user acknowledges that jihadists and militant white supremacists are strange bedfellows, but they face similar obstacles and insurgent goals including the need for effective propaganda.
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If Washington's impulsive decision-making does, in fact, negatively impact its allies, those partnerships will likely take a hit, and China may see more of these countries try to become strange bedfellows.
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" Strange bedfellows Sanders has heavily praised Pope Francis in the past, telling CNN in September he considered him "one of the great moral and religious leaders of our time and in modern history.
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There is, however, growing evidence that this coalition of strange bedfellows will implode if House Republicans insist on slipping in "below the radar" draft language approved by the House Judiciary Committee on Nov.
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This is not the first time that mainstream Jewish institutions and individuals have chosen to embrace strange bedfellows for the sake of Israel, while staying quiet about or even reinforcing racism and Islamophobia.
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The Madisonian vision would recover the purpose of Congress in our larger constitutional system but would mean slow going, greater cacophony, less centralization and more opportunities for coalitions of strange bedfellows to form.
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But in the "politics makes strange bedfellows" column, get ready for a large number of Bannon's most vocal critics on the left rushing to defend his comments and treat them like the Gospel.
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Here's who's bankrolling the fight against legal marijuana Here's who's bankrolling the fight against legal marijuana Even by the usual standards of politics, this election's campaign against marijuana legalization has made strange bedfellows.
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His strange bedfellows in the white nationalist movement would certainly agree that fewer immigrants and stricter voting procedures are a good thing, because, well, that would stop brown and black people from being empowered.
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It's quite an evolution from the everygirl character she was presented as in Season 1, but "misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows," and there's no character quite as tortured as Angela (even Elliot).
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In a strange bedfellows kind of statement, Al Jazeera went on to lump Israel in with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the other Arab countries that have been at odds with it in recent months.
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"Jim Whelan is a bridge builder who has a history of working with strange bedfellows," said John Raskin, head of Riders Alliance, a transit group, who has worked both with and against Mr. Whelan.
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Proving politics really does make for strange bedfellows, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump warmly embraced the endorsement of his former rival, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, even as many of the latter's supporters denounced the move.
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Here are some other things to know about gambling on live sports in Australia: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS Many Australian sporting events and individual teams and stadiums have entered into commercial marketing arrangements with the corporate bookmakers.
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I realized this last night while watching "Strange Bedfellows," which has the new mom trapped between the rock and the hard place better known as the trigger happy Lyons and the imprisonment happy federal government.
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I'm not trying to justify or abet Trump and his supporters in climate denial, and I'm not thinking climate activists and the Trump administration will end up in some the kind of strange-bedfellows embrace.
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Driving the news: A strange bedfellows group formed last year by utilities and Tesla filed suit in the D.C. Circuit earlier this month against the Environmental Protection Agency's move to roll back fuel-efficiency standards.
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These speeded up transfers of detainees to third countries, more than 40 of which (including such strange bedfellows as Albania, Cape Verde, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Palau and Uruguay) have agreed to receive some of those set free.
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Among the more important of these is the fact that Italy now has in place a populist coalition government comprised of the strange bedfellows of the left-leaning Five Star Movement and the right-leaning League.
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"Tom Udall led an effort with the strangest group of strange bedfellows I've ever seen," said Richard Denison, the lead senior scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund who has long worked on the toxic regulation issue.
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During the American occupation — before the rise of the Islamic State made strange bedfellows of Washington and Tehran — Iranian proxies often exceeded Sunni extremists in terms of the number of casualties they inflicted on American forces.
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As was the case during the fight against New Hampshire's Northern Pass project, resistance to both Virginia pipelines creates strange bedfellows out of liberal environmentalists and Trump voters, who are acting together against FERC and mammoth corporations.
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Cosmologies, in other words, can make for strange bedfellows, and some of what Gray does best in "Seven Types of Atheism" is not only to draw distinctions among atheists but to make connections between nonbelievers and believers.
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As co-chair of the bipartisan Climate Solution Caucus, which has an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, Deutch has seen this group of strange bedfellows grow from a dozen members to 90 in just two years.
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But if a deal were to be reached, it would add to a convoluted web of investments in the ride-hailing industry, where competitors have become strange bedfellows through investors who have placed bets on multiple companies.
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A strange bedfellows coalition, including four of the world's biggest oil and natural gas producers, environmental groups and political leaders, are announcing a unified push urging Congress to enact a carbon tax to address climate change on Wednesday.
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The "strange bedfellows" story of liberals and conservatives finding common ground on the need for criminal justice reform has become commonplace over the past few years, but media coverage often provides too simplistic an explanation of reformers' motives.
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The coalition, which includes strange bedfellows representing natural gas, oil, wind energy and solar energy, asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to scrap the proposal, saying the comments filed by supporters don't show a legal justification for it.
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"Like the one that has just crumbled, the would-be new coalition also comprises strange bedfellows who until recently were fighting like cats and dogs, be it in Parliament or the media," wrote Malaysian commentator Joceline Tan this week.
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Where it stands: These companies join several others funding Americans For Carbon Dividends (AFCD), the lobbying arm of the Climate Leadership Council (CLC), which is a coalition of strange bedfellows that includes companies, environmental groups and former Republican lawmakers.
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The alliance with the Nepali Congress party has made strange bedfellows of Mr. Dahal and that party's president, Sher Bahadur Deuba, who as prime minister in 2002, at the height of the Maoist insurgency, put a bounty on Mr. Dahal's head.
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At the beginning of May, the US refused to provide aerial support to Shia militias during the battle to liberate the area around the village of Bashir, which includes al-Yarmouk, exposing some of the tensions under this strange-bedfellows dynamic.
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"We may be strange bedfellows, but it's rare that people can just park whatever their political persuasions and ideology may be and try to help people in trouble, and that's what happened here," says Horan, who retired from Operation Blessing this year.
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From being an object of derision among the private sector, there's a growing awareness, thanks in part to the work of President Obama's Presidential Innovation Fellows (and other public-private partnerships fostered by the administration) that government and tech aren't such strange bedfellows.
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These strange bedfellows came together from the outer edges of one or both parties and have been responsible for national reforms to the criminal justice system, changes to how the United States conducts electronic surveillance, and several years' reforms to the Pentagon budget.
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But Reddit and Tencent are strange bedfellows due to Reddit's historic reference to freedom of speech as core to its mission while Tencent is one of the most important architects of the Great Firewall of China, the most sophisticated censorship regime in history.
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The debate made for strange bedfellows, as a well-known labor organizer teamed up with an economic libertarian to argue in favor of UBI, while two aides to former president Barack Obama and vice president Joe Biden pushed back on the idea.
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It is the latest example of the evolving trans-partisan nature of the anti-war movement, which has drawn some politically strange bedfellows on the far-right and far-left who are advocating for extricating U.S. military forces from open-ended conflicts.
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And while a soda company, a network broadcaster and a car company (I swear there's a joke in there somewhere) may seem like strange bedfellows, Czertok tells me there's roughly a 70 percent overlap in the types of technology startups all three are interested in.
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The move is part of a broader, strange bedfellows alliance that spans renewable energy groups, the oil-and-gas industry and environmentalists — a mix that highlights the high-stakes of one of the most intense energy policy fight of the Trump era thus far.
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Away from the office he was known for making collages in which he cheerfully married strange bedfellows (buttons and boot jacks, work gloves and pebbles, airline luggage tags and canceled stamps) as if to counter the cool minimalism of his 211-to-22001 life.
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For as long as I can remember, climate campaigns have been animated by the same basic idea: big ad outreach, lots of strange bedfellows from the military, business, or celebrity worlds, educational town halls, all pushing for broader awareness and engagement on the issue.
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Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, who is developing a Middle East peace plan, convened a gathering on Thursday morning attended by Mr. Netanyahu, Mr. Pompeo and 150 others that united some strange bedfellows in the name of isolating Iran.
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Strange bedfellows, to be sure, given that Asian-Americans have made the greatest leftward political shift of any group of US voters in the last 25 years — going from just over 30% Democrat in 1992 to supporting President Obama's re-election by a staggering 20083% in 2012.
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Speaking of strange bedfellows, if Ali is granted an honorary knighthood, he will not only be joining Bono and George Bush but J. Edgar Hoover, the former head of the FBI who famously investigated and tried to undermine the Civil Rights movement and Ali's beloved Nation of Islam.
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His unpopularity has united Malaysia's three biggest opposition parties—the progressive, Chinese-backed Democratic Action Party (DAP), the centrist Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), and the Islamist Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS)—but they have always been strange bedfellows, sharing the goal of ousting Barisan Nasional and little else.
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That reapportionment, expected in December 20.48, will kick off the year-and-a-half-long process of redrawing congressional-district maps — still in many states a brazen partisan battle that makes strange bedfellows, unplanned retirements and intense member-versus-member races, especially in states poised to lose seats.
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That has required a Google Drive account, but customer requirements can sometimes make for strange bedfellows and Dropbox and Google have been working together to bring this integration to fruition because it's something both companies' customers have been asking for, Quentin Clark, SVP of Engineering, Product and Design at Dropbox explained.
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Passage of the Cures Act was a rare bipartisan effort that made strange bedfellows of Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is a polio survivor, and Democrats, headed by then-Vice President Joe Biden, who lost his oldest son Beau to brain cancer at age 46 in 2015.
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In a story titled "Strange Bedfellows," an anonymous contributor told a story of how he quit smoking weed after an evening spent busking with a djembe turned into getting way too high in a spooky old house with a strange old wizard man who couldn't stop talking about cutting people open.
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"Dark Times" by the Weeknd Another "writing hits makes strange bedfellows" case — it's hard to imagine nice-guy-for-life Sheeran cozying up to the Weeknd's sex-and-drugs-and-the-night aesthetic, but apparently the pair banged this number out after a post-show awards party that went till 5 a.m.
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This "spycraft makes strange bedfellows" aspect of Jason Bourne is a big part of why its second half holds together as well as it does, and it wouldn't work at all if Alicia Vikander weren't playing Heather as someone who occasionally appears to be ensuring that even she doesn't know which cards she's holding.
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Maybe it's "politics makes strange bedfellows," or perhaps "misery loves company," but both the White House and the congressional Republicans need to get some kind of win on tax reform in the wake of a year with no major legislative achievements other than the confirmation of Justice Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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In a process convened by Convergence Center for Policy Resolution, a diverse "committee" of strange bedfellows—budget experts and advocates from organizations like the National Taxpayers Union, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Association of American Universities, United Way, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars—came together to craft specific solutions and a path forward.
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When: Opens Saturday, September 24, 63pm–midnight Where: BBQLA (2315 Jesse St., Boyle Heights, Los Angeles) Art and sports make for strange bedfellows, but they have more in common than one might think: both prize innate physical talent, have their own sets of superstars, and have contentious rivalries (not to mention obscene amounts of money).
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While that feverish formula can render "American Made" difficult to follow at times and creates a few turbulent patches, the intent and underlying message are crystal clear -- conveying the strange bedfellows and moral corner-cutting that characterized U.S. adventures in Central America during this era, in the name of combating the twin evils of drugs and communism.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE is creating strange bedfellows with his proposal to expand ethanol sales, with some environmental groups and the oil industry opposing the new rule.
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But as they were all figuring it out, one of the sector's key investors considered combining a pair of strange bedfellows: In an acquisition attempt that hasn't previously been revealed, the owners of the Weekly Standard and the Washington Examiner explored purchasing the Federalist, according to four sources familiar with what happened, as well as emails obtained by BuzzFeed News from 2003.
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Strange bedfellows That 92-year-old Mahathir has switched political allegiances would likely have caused consternation among opposition party hardliners, who will remember him as much for his time as leader of the ruling party, as they will for his more recent criticism of Najib, says Bridget Welsh, Associate Professor at John Cabot University and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for East Asia Democratic Studies of the National Taiwan University.
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Democratic strategist Jennifer Holdsworth on Friday said that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's decision to withdraw troops from Syria is making for some "extremely strange bedfellows" after drawing mixed reactions from leaders around the world.
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Sure, they'll be strange bedfellows, but it's high time the Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE-style libertarian Republicans make common cause with the far-left Democrats to lead America out of the swamp of perpetual war to a sustainable foreign policy that Americans could truly be proud of.
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Trump is a wild card in the fight — even after Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrTrump criticizes Sessions after Alabama Senate primary heads to a runoff Trump tells Republicans he won't extend surveillance law without FISA reforms Why the rule of law depends on the president and his attorney general MORE told senators recently that the Trump administration wants a total reauthorization without reforms, Trump has raised the possibility that he would support some libertarian-minded reforms, potentially making for strange bedfellows in a contentious battle that typically pits privacy hawks against national security types.
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The case has made for strange bedfellows, with the National Review receiving backing from the Center for Investigative Reporting, which has produced award-winning coverage of climate change; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellOvernight Health Care: Fireworks on health care expected at Dem debate | Trump FDA pick dodges on vaping ban | Trump to host meeting on youth vaping Friday | AMA calls for immediate vaping ban GOP senator blocks vote on House-passed Violence Against Women Act On The Money: Senate scraps plan to force second shutdown vote | Trump tax breaks for low-income neighborhoods draw scrutiny | McConnell rips House Dems for holding up trade deal MORE (R-Ky.); The Washington Post; and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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