Italy's Government on the Brink Again
Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli, Politico EU
Just three months in, tensions are high between the uneasy coalition partners.
Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli, Politico EU
Just three months in, tensions are high between the uneasy coalition partners.
Riccardo Arriazu, Worldcrunch
Many people have had to tighten their purse strings in recent years. But that's only part of what's fueling frustrations in the region.
William Davies, Guardian
Divisions between politics, the media and business have dissolved, eroding integrity. It's not bad news for everyone, says political economist William Davies
New Statesman
This general election has been described as the most pivotal since Margaret Thatcher's victory in 1979 heralded the new right's counter-revolution against the postwar consensus. If the Conservatives win a comfortable majority on 12 December, Britain will leave the European Union and Remainers campaigning for a second referendum will have been defeated. The Labour Party is likely to be immersed in another civil war as the Corbynites seek to maintain control. Beyond Westminster, the United Kingdom... Читать дальше...
Robert Kaplan, TNI
If a moderate cannot somehow prevail in the Democratic primaries, and President Donald Trump faces Senator Elizabeth Warren in the November election, it will punctuate a process of slow and gradual American decline that began in the middle Cold War years. For the first time in modern memory, there would not be a candidate from the political center on any ticket.
John Keiger, Spectator
If Boris Johnson wins a clear majority on 12 December, it could mark a big turning point in British history. The brakes will be off for the United Kingdom to formally leave the European Union by 31
Sui-Lee Wee & Paul Mozur, NYT
Beijing's pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent.
Jen Kirby, Vox
How the left-winger became the leader of the UK's Labour Party and how Brexit might bring him down.
Daniel Finkelstein, Times of London
TOP SECRET 12 March 1948. To the British ambassador to the United States. Please inform Mr Bevin that in accordance with your aide-memoire of 11 March, we are prepared to proceed at once in the...
Arnold Isaacs, TomDispatch
Many men do monstrous things. And some men are very nearly monsters, capable of killing without compunction or remorse. In the everyday civilian world, we generally seek to lock them up. In war, they have a chance to fully flower. And if they serve in militaries that fight serial conflicts where the laws of war are considered mere suggestions, they can be all that they can be.
Efran Fard, Jerusalem Post
The mullahs are worthless. They live in the Middle Ages. They murder, rape, terrorize, torture and eliminate anyone who stands in their way.
Vitali Shkliarov, Foreign Policy
Tensions between Moscow and Brussels have led to a dangerous militarization of Eastern Europe. But Minsk is showing an alternative.
Daniel Mahoney, Law and Liberty
Daniel Mahoney concludes the forum on 1989 and its lessons for defenders of liberalism and truth today.
Robert Skidelsky, Project Syndicate
The conventional Western view is that China faces the alternatives of integrating with the West, trying to destroy it, or succumbing to domestic violence and chaos. But the Chinese scholar Lanxin Xiang instead proposes a constitutional regime based on a modernized Confucianism.
James Lindsay & Corey Cooper & Elizabeth Lordi, CFR
In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) became America's first peacetime alliance outside the Western Hemisphere. Today, twenty-nine countries make up what is the greatest military alliance in history.
Rachel Ellehuus, CSIS
NATO leaders will gather this week in London to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the alliance; reflect on past accomplishments; implement the remaining deterrence and defense measures agreed at the 2014 Warsaw Summit; and lay the groundwork for future cooperation in new areas, such as emerging technologies and space. And while the military machinery that is the core of NATO continues to run smoothlygenerating levels of interoperability, integrated operational planning, and... Читать дальше...
Michael Rubin, The American Interest
Our problems with Turkey aren't due to Trump, or Obama, or any other President. Put the blame where it belongs: with Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and his choices.
Richard McGregor, Nikkei Asian Review
Scott Morrison needs to study Shinzo Abe's resolve.
Dexter Filkins, New Yorker
The Prime Minister's Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies.
Pres. Volodymyr Zelenskiy with Time et al
'I don't trust anyone at all'