Alliances Move Against Netanyahu Ahead of Israeli Election
B. Avishai, New Yorker
As the do-over campaign reaches its end, and with the Prime Minister facing three possible indictments, opposition from the left and the right is consolidating.
B. Avishai, New Yorker
As the do-over campaign reaches its end, and with the Prime Minister facing three possible indictments, opposition from the left and the right is consolidating.
Mitchell Zuckoff, Boston Globe
The 40 passengers and crew members of United Flight 93 should be celebrated and emulated for representing the greatest of all American values.
Curtis Chin & Jose Collazo, JoongAng Daily
The recent visit by President Moon Jae-in to Thailand was the first by a Korean leader in seven years. Millions of Korean visitors have regularly preceded him, with some 1.8 million coming from Korea to Thailand last year alone. An estimated 20,000-25,000 Koreans also are reported to work or live in this dynamic Southeast Asia nation.
Gidon Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem Post
Henry Zeffman, Times of London
Boris Johnson wants to turn the next general election into a contest between him and Jeremy Corbyn rather than a choice between the Conservatives and Labour or even Leave and Remain. Already...
Paul Rahe, Law and Liberty
Paul Rahe reviews a new book on Turkey and its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an
George Eaton, New Statesman
In April 2016, after Boris Johnson referred to Barack Obama as a part-Kenyan president with an ancestral dislike of the British empire, one of the US president's aides remarked: They're more subtle back home. Obama replied: Not really. Boris is their Trump. This observation made before either man had been elected now appears a prescient distillation of a strange new era of Anglo-American politics. At the height of liberal globalisation it was thought that presidents... Читать дальше...
Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic
The Palace of Westminster is in a state of disrepair. Is this an opportunity to completely reimagine how politics should look?
H. DeRensis & M. Petti, TNI
Erin Banco & Asawin Suebsaeng, DB
William Reinsch, CSIS
Before getting to today's topic, I can't resist taking the opportunity to note recent evidence supporting my conclusion that negotiation of a U.S.-UK trade agreement will be more difficult than people think. The issue came up last week during Vice President Mike Pence's visit to the United Kingdom, when Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that anything concerning their National Health Service was off the tablenot a new positionand that the United Kingdom would have trouble with our chlorinated chickens. Читать дальше...
Alex Brummer, Daily Mail
ALEX BRUMMER: Three years of Brexit uncertainty and the terrifying prospect of a Jeremy Corbyn government are scaring the wealthy in this country witless.
Leonid Ragozin, Politico EU
With Moscow city council vote, Russia's liberal opposition scored a major victory.
Bernhard Zand, Der Spiegel
Beijing is building a megacity in the Pearl River Delta that it hopes will one day rival New York and Tokyo. This colossal urbanization project is a bold attempt at metropolitan integration -- and perhaps also a plan by the Chinese leadership to keep Hong Kong under its thumb.
Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs
What Tolstoy's masterwork explains about Putin's foreign policy.