Kevin Williamson, National Review
On Friday, I listened to a brief lecture on the unhappy history of Detroit, told from the familiar anti-capitalist point of view: Because international trade is a merciless race to the bottom, the Detroit-based automobile industry could not compete with foreign rivals absent some degree of intervention from the U.S. government. Instead, the U.S. government pursued free-market policies, which resulted in the municipal ruination of Detroit and the impoverishment of its people. Читать дальше...
Mazal Mualem, Al-Monitor
The large participation of politicians and of figures from the Orthodox-Zionist stream at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade was a victory for liberalism over incitement against the LGBTQ community.
Nina Schick, Telegraph
Germanà politics is a tinder box waiting to explode. Berlin let out a sigh of relief that the Munich killer had no link to Islamic terrorists. But whatever his motives, a political thunderstorm is brewing over the country's immigration and refugee policies.
Nancy Youssef, The Daily Beast
As DNC 2016 begins, many of Secretary Clinton's signature causes are now a problem for candidate Hillary.
Ioan Grillo, New York Times
Dramatic portrayals of Mexican crime kings, which began as zany B-grade movies, have evolved into wildly popular soap operas, best-selling novels and major Hollywood productions. They are part of a wider narco culture, ranging from pop-music ballads to fashion trends. Meanwhile, from 2007 to 2014 more than 80,000 Mexicans were killed by cartel-related violence, according to a government count. May was the most murderous month in Mexico in almost four years.
Frank S.T. Hsiao, The Diplomat
Many Taiwanese feel that the Taiwanese economy recently has been a disaster: low and stagnating wage rates, increasing income inequality, the hollowing out of domestic industries, and languishing exports. The new government of President Tsai Ing-wen came to power in May this year facing economic contractions for the past three quarters and a sharp decrease in exports for 16 consecutive months. Taiwan's exports are expected to fall continuously for the rest of 2016.
Rex Murphy, National Post
The rulers and the ruled are increasingly out of touch with each other.
Bridget Johnson, New York Daily News
Instead of acknowledging that spreading operatives across the globe, offering at-home training instruction and encouraging disciplined independence in selecting targets and executing missions is the long-term plan of both ISIS and Al Qaeda, the administration spins this scatter as a fallback plan of terror groups nudged out of safe havens and running scared.
Bruce Stokes, Foreign Policy
Fear of terrorism, Muslims, and refugees is driving the parties of the right and left further apart than ever before.
Garry Kasparov, Wash Post
Donald Trump's dark and frightening speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday had pundits and historians making comparisons ranging from George Wallace in the 1960s to Benito Mussolini in the 1930s. As suitable as those comparisons may be, the chill that ran down my spine was not because of Trump's echoes of old newsreel footage. Instead, I saw an Americanized version of the brutally effective propaganda of fear and hatred that Vladimir Putin blankets Russia with today.
Walter Russell Mead, Am. Interest
It remains the case that under the current circumstances it is in America's interest to do what we can to offer a soft landing to a failed regime and a failed polity in a neighboring state. We don't want Cuba to collapse in poverty, anarchy and ruin. We don't want the Cuban people to starveâÂÂand to build rafts. We don't want order to break down. Transition will clearly come; something that is unsustainable won't last forever. And though we may have to hold our noses to do it... Читать дальше...
Mimi Whitefield, Miami Herald
Cuba remains suspicious of U.S. motives one year after the two countries reestablished diplomatic ties.
Yaroslav Trofimov, Wall Street Journal
First Egypt and now Turkey show the perils of ideological religious parties (and strongman rule), but other Muslim countries are faring better with democracy.
Josef Joffe, The Guardian
The Munich gunman reportedly read up on US school shootings. But no end of experience will help us stop such lone-wolf attacks, terror-inspired or not.
