Will Trudeau Ride Pandemic to an Early Election?
Andy Blatchford, Politico
Strong polling numbers amid crisis have pollsters and pundits in Canada speculating about an early return to the campaign trail.
Andy Blatchford, Politico
Strong polling numbers amid crisis have pollsters and pundits in Canada speculating about an early return to the campaign trail.
Gary Mason, Globe & Mail
Howard French, World Politics Review
As a young boy in an internationally minded African American family in the Washington D.C. of the 1960s, I avidly collected stamps from other countries and visited the city’s embassies for the kinds of promotional publications countries put out about life back home in their societies in the pre-internet age. One of those embassies represented Moscow
Walter Lohman & Thomas Spoehr, DS
In compliance with the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, the Trump administration last week released the United States Strategic Approach to the People’s Republic of China.
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Rachel Bronson, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Vandals looted the New Balance store on my corner Monday night, while others targeted the AT&T store a few blocks away. This was the second night of helicopters flying low above our house monitoring the unfolding situation in the normally quiet neighborhood of Lincoln Park. One night earlier, a mob had turned the Old Town neighborhood, just a few blocks south, into a staging ground, and there were reports of homes broken into and a school damaged. Читать дальше...
Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
Sen. Tom Cotton, New York Times
The nation must restore order. The military stands ready.
Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
In an extraordinary condemnation, the former defense secretary backs protesters and says the president is trying to turn Americans against one another.
Jude Blanchette et al, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Beijing’s decision to pass a national security law that would bypass Hong Kong’s legislature to impose potentially draconian restrictions on Hong Kong citizens’ civil liberties presents the United States and the international community with hard choices. China’s assault on Hong Kong’s autonomy sets the stage for a crackdown that could destroy Beijing’s promise of “one country, two systems” and send a ripple of uncertainty across Asia. Читать дальше...
Helena Cobban, RS
Americans are well-known for their ingenuity and many of them (including Pres. Donald J. Trump) love to crow about being “Number One!” Now, the whole world is seeing the United States achieving a nearly unprecedented record: The country that was this planet’s unchallenged hegemon for the past 28 years is undergoing a collapse of its global empire that is fueled by many of the actions of the government itself.