Diplomacy is key to success in Trump talks

18 May 2025 - 00:00 By Sunday Times Editorial

In his celebrated poem penned in 1936, the Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes writes: “Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed. Let it be that great strong land of love. Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme. That any man can be crushed by one above (It was never America to me). O, let my land be a land where Liberty is crowned with no false patriotic wreath. But opportunity is real, and life is free. Equality is in the air we breathe.”..

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