A. Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
Following Venezuela's autocrat Nicolás Maduro's decision to break the rule of law and close all legal avenues to a peaceful resolution of the country's crisis, the United States and Latin American democracies should threaten to suspend Venezuela from the Organization of American States unless it restores the rule of law.
James Moore, Independent
Goodwill and good PR are powerful currenciesà and Justinà Trudeau has lots of both, in stark contrast to Theresa May's nasty and inward looking Tory administration.
Simon Tilford, Prospect Magazine
We will leave the EU without a long-term trade deal in place .
Narayana Kocherlakota, Bloomberg View
Italy's doing better at employing middle-aged people.
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Mark Galeotti, Foreign Policy
The Russian president has sown confusion and conflict around the world the past two years. But his short-sighted meddling isn't the work of a mastermind.
David Aaronovitch, Times of London
They were digging the dead children out of the rubble of a school just south of the city of Idlib in Syria yesterday, as the Admiral Kuznetzov aircraft carrier and the Russian fleet entered the Med...
Michael Wilner, Jer. Post
Hillary Clinton'??s inner circle speaks to the 'Post' on how her administration will handle relations with Israel and Iran.
Nelson, Spectator
After the Brexit vote, the Financial Times summed up the general mood in the City by running a weekly doomometer,â¦
Ariane Tabatabai, The Bulletin
Since Iran and six world powers struck a deal on Tehran's nuclear program more than a year ago, a number of interactions between the Islamic Republic and the United States have made headlines. They include prisoner exchanges, allegations that Washington paid a âÂÂransomâ to Tehran, expressions of mutual suspicion by politicians, and tense encounters between Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps and the US Navy in the Persian Gulf. What has received less attention... Читать дальше...
Juliet Samuel, Telegraph
History is repeating itself.
Mietek Boduszynski, The Hill
US goals need to be adjusted in light of Iranian influence in Iraq
Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg View
The government's brawn lets it overpower economic weaknesses -- for a while.
Catherine Osborn, Foreign Affairs
The unraveling of Brazil's confused political order began in 2013, when millions of youth across the country took to the streets with a range of demands from affordable public transportation to fixes to the government bureaucracy. The system shock of these âÂÂJune Journeysâ served as a catalyst in pushing the country in opposite directionsâÂÂleft and right.
Franz-Stefan Gady, The Diplomat
The new missile will reportedly be capable of penetrating any missile defense system.
M. Brough, USA Today
Clinton and Trump owe us a serious moral accounting for why we started the war in the first place.
Ronal Rodriguez, Worldcrunch
In the mid-20th century, when dictatorial regimes were imposing themselves across Latin America, Venezuela was a solid democracy. Today, things have reversed: while democracy is well-established in most nations of the continent, it is the
Bryan Denton, New York Times
The commandos' first big objective was to surround and clear Bartella, a militant-held town about six miles east of the outer fringes of Mosul. Starting out from an Iraqi base around 5 a.m., the troops began pushing east along the main highway that links the Kurdish regional capital, Erbil, with Mosul.
Joshua Kurlantzick, The Cipher Brief
In the span of six months, the U.S.-Philippines relationship has gone from a 25-year highpoint to a period of worrisome uncertainty. At the center of this shift is President Rodrigo Duterte, whose frequent anti-U.S.
Steven Cook, The Atlantic
How do Western ideas interact with the ideals of societies built on different ideals and mythologies?
Simon Jenkins, The Guardian
The Belgian region forced a giant EU scheme to unravel. Given the chance, Wales and Scotland could do the same