Tom Phillips* – The Guardian Protests, scandals, corruption claims, allegations of mafia links … ‘It’s the worst start to a presidency’ in decades, says pollster Brazil was just weeks from last year’s electoral earthquake when rock legend Lobão sat down outside his backyard…
By Frank Bruni* – The New York Times So many hot spots, so little time Any random heiress can sunbathe in the Seychelles, ski in Aspen or, with the right Sherpa and thermal wear, ascend the Himalayas. Only Ivanka has keepsakes from the Demilitarized Zone.
BY ZOLTÁN KOVÁCS – Index, Budapest On Tuesday, the Fidesz supermajority in the Hungarian Parliament passed a bill submitted by the Ministry of Innovation and Technology that ends the year-long struggle for the research institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences…
Editorial – The Guardian The climate crisis underlines the need for effective global economic leadership. The US president makes this harder, but so do China and several others Ever since the G20 of leading global economies was founded, its summits have mostly been convergent…
Roberto Savio* Social Democrats, who had been steadily disappearing following the crisis of 2008, have been making a small comeback in the last year. Now they are in power in Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Finland and, most recently, in Denmark.
Michael H Fuchs* – The Guardian The Iran debate in Washington is increasingly divorced from reality – and that should worry us The Trump administration is caught in a fever dream about Iran, and the fever is becoming dangerous. In the wake of attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf…
By Henry Olsen, Columnist – The Washington Post President Trump will officially announce that he’s running for reelection at a massive rally in Orlando on Tuesday. The early line on his chances: He’s not the favorite, but he’s far from down and out.
By Benjamin Fearnow* – Newsweek While President Donald Trump has stated that he does not want to go to war with Iran, one of his biggest supporters on Capitol Hill, Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton, said on Sunday that he supports a military strike against Iran in the wake…
By Peter Geoghegan* – openDemocracy Tory hopefuls [to the post of Prime Minister] under fire for accepting cash from company linked to major ‘climate science denial’ group. Johnson has yet to declare the funding, ‘raising questions about who else is bankrolling him’.
By Tom O’Connor* – Newsweek President Donald Trump’s attempts to force Russia and China into political submission through economic restrictions have helped to empower budding bonds being forged between the top two U.S. rivals. At a time when the Trump administration was waging…
