Susan Glasser, New Yorker
President Trump started this week as he has so many in his tenure, distracting from one controversy by plunging headlong into another. A well-timed firing, in fact, has become a signature move for the President.
Thomas Wright, The Atlantic
The president is turning away from conflict and toward diplomacyand that will shape his choice of the next national security adviser.
Robert Merry, Amer. Conservative
The Reagan-Thatcher era is over. Opponents of any leftward lurch can't afford to be blithe about it.
Aaron Stein, War on the Rocks
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan surprised a lot of people when he told an audience last week that the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Martin Kettle, Guardian
Its pro-EU stance has made Jo Swinson??s party a prime player again, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
J.M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books
Let us suppose that I am the heir of an enormous estate. Stories about my generosity abound. And let us suppose that you are a young man, ambitious but in trouble with the authorities in your native land. You make a momentous decision: you will set out on a voyage across the ocean that will bring you to my doorstep, where you will say, I am herefeed me, give me a home, let me make a new life! Unbeknown to you, however, I have grown tired of strangers arriving on my doorstep saying I am here... Читать дальше...
Imko Meyenburg, The Conversation
After a decade of nearly uninterrupted growth, the German economy is stuttering.
Therese Shaheen, NRO
Taiwan has become more isolated, and its relationship with the U.S. has grown ill-defined. Trump can and should change that.
Brian Bennett, Time
With the Taliban talks collapse, it's worth asking whether Trump's approach has proved better at solving the world's problems
Shashi Tharoor, New Statesman
In 1930, a book emerged by the young American historian and philosopher Will Durant that occasioned apoplectic outrage in British colonial India. The Case for India was a brief but savage indictment of the British Raj, written in indignant passion with the forensic precision of the historian and the moral empathy of the philosopher. Durant had interrupted a research visit to India, part of a worldwide journey that would result in the 11-volume The Story of Civilisation (1935-75)... Читать дальше...
Philip Stephens, Financial Times
The benefits of integration carry a price tag. German voters have never been required to understand this bargain.
Drew Fagan, New York Times
Like his father, he has failed to translate glamour into political results.
Ankit Panda, New Republic
His presidency sometimes makes historic changes possible. But his ego always torpedoes them.