Stephen Fidler, WS Journal
Caution suggests the U.K. should take time before it formally steps out of the European Union, but other factors suggest that fateful date could come sooner rather than later, Stephen Fidler writes.
Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
If President Ronald Reagan's ambassador to the United Nations, Jeane Kirkpatrick, were alive to see Hillary Clinton's speech on Thursday, I imagine she would smile. Ã
Christopher Preble, National Interest
Sure, the real-estate mogul is an easy target. But so is America's foreign-policy consensus.
Tom Nichols, New York Daily News
These are all painful realizations for national security Republicans like me. We know Hillary Clinton. We know her deeply flawed record as secretary of state. Her speech contained the usual clunkers, like what a champion she'd be for the LGBT community in the international arena. (Because, of course, the treatment of sexual minorities overseas is exactly what we're all worried about these days.)
Fred Kaplan, Slate
or those who thought Hillary Clinton needed proxies or a running mate to attack Donald Trump with the savagery required of a long-slog campaign, her Thursday speech in San Diego should be a mind-changer.Ã
Ian Bremmer, Time
She needs to speak to the people, not the establishment.
Hillary Clinton
He bought full-page ads in newspapers across the country back in 1987, when Ronald Reagan was President, saying that America lacked a backbone and the world was â you guessed it â laughing at us. He was wrong then, and he's wrong now â and you've got to wonder why somebody who fundamentally has so little confidence in America, and has felt that way for at least 30 years, wants to be our President.
Christoph Reuter, Der Spiegel
The US is fighting together with an alliance of rival groups to defeat IS in Iraq. Deadly violence in a city north of Baghdad shows, however, that once the Islamists are defeated, erstwhile allies may turn their weapons on each other.
John Lloyd, Reuters
The charge of anti-Semitism has roiled the British Labour Party, once one of Israel's staunchest supporters.
Hannah Thoburn, Vox
The crisis is part of a wider trend of democratic backsliding across Europe.
Giulia Paravicini, Politico EU
Prime minister needs to keep Rome and Milan in weekend elections to build momentum for October's vital constitutional referendum.
Roger Cohen, New York Times
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam â An American who has been a resident here for a few years said to me the other day: âÂÂYou know, they still look at us here the way we want to be looked at. America equals opportunity, entrepreneurship and success. That's not true in so many places anymore.âÂÂ
Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post
Millions of Syrian men, women and children are fleeing their homes, living in squalor and losing their lives.
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
Managing Pyongyang's outbursts is a valuable tool for Beijing in its relationship with Washington.
Robert Zaretsky, RealClearWorld
Is France's Fifth Republic, successor to a paralyzed and powerless Fourth Republic in 1958, slated for a similar fate? Since early March, workers and students have aimed a series of massive strikes at the Socialist government of President Francois Hollande. The footage of masked protesters colliding with riot police, piles of blazing tires outside oil refineries, shuttered gas stations, and police cars set ablaze suggest a flailing and perhaps failing government. Читать дальше...