Jessie Yeung, CNN
Environmental organizations and researchers say the wildfires blazing in the Brazilian rainforest were set by cattle ranchers and loggers who want to clear and utilize the land, emboldened by the country's pro-business president.
Martin Kettle, Guardian
The similarities are now uncanny as populist governments produce ever more extreme policies, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
Paul Taylor, Politico EU
Washington will exact a high price for helping a weakened Brexit Britain.
Robert Peston, Spectator
There is arguably the most important conflict raging in the Tory party since Churchill replaced Chamberlain as PM in 1940. Although we are living through 1940 in reverse, because Johnson is already
Richard Littlejohn, Daily Mail
The President's latest grand scheme is to buy Greenland from Denmark. It makes sense. But he should set his sights much higher and bid for Britain instead, according to Littlejohn.
Zachary Karabell, Politico
The president likes to say that his tariffs are hurting China and no one else. But if China is feeling the pain, so will the United States.
Arturo Porzecanski, Americas Quarterly
Brazil's 2002 crisis illuminates a way to calm investors, writes a longtime emerging markets economist.
Henry Mance, Financial Times
The more I think about the Arctic of the Deal, the more I like it. The European Central Bank would surely finance the transaction; Deutsche Bank and Barclays could finally crack the US deal market. The whole thing will probably spawn a sequel to the musical Hamilton.
Donald Rothwell, Lowy Interpreter
The trade in territory is not without precedent and the growing power contest over the Arctic is little appreciated.
Sarah Manavis, New Statesman
While walking home on Thursday night, I was having a panic attack. It was one of many I had last week after a shooting in my hometown, and days spent of obsessively Twitter searching trump dayton visit had fried my brain and body. Beyond running those searches, everything else felt impossible; I kept doing them despite it making me feel like trash. In between texting my boyfriend to ask if he needed anything from the shop and googling how many panic attacks is too many and panic attacks vs nervous breakdown... Читать дальше...
Ruth Margalit, New Yorker
The fallout from Israel's ban on the two members of Congress has exposed a growing rift in the country over how to respond to B.D.S. supporters.
Naki Mendoza, Americas Quarterly
AMLO has pledged to revive Mexico's state oil firm, but the company's five-year plan may do more harm than good.
Vivian Yee, New York Times
On an eight-day visit, New York Times journalists given rare access to Syria found ruin, grief and generosity. What was missing after eight years of civil war? Young men and a middle class.
Robert Muggah, Foreign Policy
Working with Brazil's agricultural businesses could be the key to a healthier Amazon.
Martin Oliner, Jerusalem Post
Perhaps ignoring the visit of the congresswomen and waiting patiently for the world to forget about the visit of these fringe politicians would have been the right thing to do.
Steve Kwast, War on the Rocks
Let's unleash the space professionals so they can grow and become the equivalent of the Air Force after separating from the Army. - Acting Secretary of
Nick Burns, American Affairs Journal
Ten years ago, Brazil was a left-wing success story. The Workers' Party's generous cash-transfer programs for poor families, bankrolled by buoyant commodity prices and constructed on a preexisting foundation of fiscal discipline, helped to lift millions out of poverty. Constitutional order was maintained. The economy grew, and arrangements were reached between the reigning patronage party
Paul Scraton, New Statesman
In a summer day in 1921, a year after he moved to Berlin, the writer Joseph Roth went to the barbershop. Inside the air was hot and heavy, soundtracked by the clack of scissors and a fly that buzzed lazily around the room. The atmosphere was stilled, deadened by the July temperatures. We know how it was in the barbershop that morning because Roth wrote about it, in one of the many feuilleton articles that were published in newspapers such as the Berliner Brsen-Courier and which helped make his reputation. Читать дальше...
Laura Weiss, World Politics Review
Two weeks after the release of new government data showing a sharp rise in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, hundreds of indigenous women occupied a government building in Brasilia on Tuesday to protest what they called President Jair Bolsonaro's genocidal environmental policies targeting their communities. The following day, a contingent of over 1,000 indigenous women joined some 100,000 other demonstrators in Brazil's Women's March on the streets of the capital.
Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post
A serious work of popular history triggered American conservatives.
Rich Lowry, New York Post
Beto O'Rourke has taken the measure of America and found it wanting. This country, though we would like to think otherwise, he intoned last weekend, was founded on racism, has persisted through
Daniel Larison, The American Conservative
Trump's "diplomacy" is no diplomacy at all, but a series of insults, sanctions, tariffs, and threats that achieve nothing except to cause disruption and pain.
Jonathan Masters, CFR
The U.S. Navy's dominance of the world's oceans has made it an indispensable foreign policy tool as well as a guarantor of global trade, but a mix of challenges is raising difficult questions about its future.
C. Clary & V. Narang, Hindustan Times
A policy of no first use is, in fact, a promise not to do something in the future: not to use nuclear weapons first in a conflict.