Analysis by Stephen Collinson – CNN Washington (CNN)It is the Trump doctrine laid bare. By letting Saudi Arabia get away with the murder of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the President sent a message of startling clarity about how the United States will conduct its…
Editorial Populism has arrived. Telling voters the problems that populist parties raise have no easy solution sounds like an excuse for inaction Across Europe, moderate politicians are anxious about the vitality of their democracies, the sturdiness of their institutions, the…
Crawford* The United States has appropriated and is obligated to spend an estimated $5.9 trillion on the war on terror through Fiscal Year 2019, including direct war and war-related spending and obligations for future spending on post-9/11 war veterans. This number differs…
BY ISHAAN THAROOR* – The Washington Post Saudi authorities have spent almost two months obfuscating what happened to slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi. All the while, the White House has played along, seeking to tamp down the outrage over Khashoggi’s murder at the Saudi Consulate…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Nov 14 2018 (IPS) – A former French president once remarked: Never pick a fight with a little kid or the press. The kid will throw the last stone at you and the press will have the last word.
By Joe Freeman – The Tricycle (*) Once hailed, now reviled: five takes on Myanmar’s de facto leader Thinking back, it was like a celebration. There was music, dancing, camaraderie, cheering. I stood in front of the headquarters of the National League for Democracy in Yangon and…
By Norman Eisen and Jeffrey Gedmin (*) (CNN) If there is one painful lesson that we have learned in the 100 years since the end of World War I, it is that democracy’s friends on both sides of the Atlantic must speak up when it is under assault. That is why we are…
By James Carden* – The Nation Three new books make the case against a failed grand strategy In the nearly two years since President Donald J. Trump took office there has been an outpouring of commentary decrying the end of an era, now just past, when the United States could be…
Essay by Renato Moro* – Università degli Studi Roma Tre Do not underestimate Italy and Italians in politics, ever. Light and atrocity, spontaneity and passion, art and religion, beauty and crime have always been foreigners’ fundamental keys to understanding Italian life.
How the ultra rich could save the world, if they wanted to, in 22 pictures anc charts from Jeremy Leggett Recent compilations of wealth show staggering record inequality, and miniscule engagement by the richest in socially-responsible investment. This presentation explores the…
