Liam Fox, Evening Standard
Yesterday the Chancellor laid out the details of the next spending round to Parliament. It was delivered, in his own words, in uncharted waters, a single year's settlement setting out the spending plans for Britain's first year outside the European Union.
Roberto Mansilla Blanco, Global Americans
Following the PASO results, a possible return of Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner to power could be the oxygen Maduro needs to perpetuate his dictatorship. But unlike the Chvez-Kirchner alliance of the 2000s, today's context is very different.
Eldar Mamedov, LobeLog
by Eldar Mamedov A year after the United States unilaterally withdrew from the nuclear agreement with Iran (known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA) and instituted its ??maximum pre?
David Skelton, CapX
It has been one of the most dramatic political weeks in living memory and there's every chance that things could get even more dramatic. What seems clear is that there might well be an election sooner rather than later. What is even clearer is that the route to a substantial overall majority is through the
Vishal Arora, The Diplomat
Scenes from the Soura area of Srinagar, Kashmir's epicenter of resistance.
Tilak Devasher, Indian Express
There is no doubt that for the Pakistani leadership, and especially the army, to reduce the salience of, let alone jettison, the Kashmir cause would be extremely difficult, unpopular and politically dangerous.
Theo Mackey Pollack, TAC
Two volumes, over a thousand pages, and two thousand years later, this new Atlas is a signal achievement.
A. Yusuf, The Conversation
Roughly translating as 'Hindu-ness', Hindutva reframes the majority religion more as an identity, stoking tensions and intolerance of Muslims.
Robert Zaretsky, Slate
What the great Danish philosopher of the absurd would have made of our era.
Sam Knight, New Yorker
This week in Parliament has been particularly frantic, as the Prime Minister purged his opponents from the Conservative Party and threatened to call an election.
Diego Cupolo, Al Monitor
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed interest in acquiring nuclear weapons, and while international treaties would make the feat difficult to accomplish, his rhetoric implies shifting global ambitions.
Elsie Eyakuze, Al Jazeera
Robert Mugabe helped build Zimbabwe and helped destroy it.
Joseph Nye, Project Syndicate
Donald Trump's long-term impact on US foreign policy is uncertain. But the debate about it has revived a longstanding question: Are major historical outcomes the product of human choices or are they largely the result of overwhelming structural factors produced by economic and political forces beyond our control?
James Fallows, The Atlantic
Maybe the end of the American one won't be either.