Hadley Gamble, CNBC
The past week signaled that Saudi Arabia's role as the undisputed leader of the OPEC cartel is changing.
Mohammad Ziauddin, RealClearWorld
Terrorists face a more determined Bangladesh than they expected. Their hateful adventures have brought Bangladeshis together. The government has risen to the challenge of securing its homeland. The terrorists are losing.
Azadeh Moaveni, New York Times
Iranian women's rights activists worry that anti-hijab protests, which flared up in Europe recently over the French burkini ban, are now being aimed at Iran. The West's preoccupation with the veil and the growing popularity of simply being âÂÂanti-hijabâ as an existential and political position muddles too many things.
Nomani & Alinejad, WaPo
'I will NOT wear a hijab and support women's oppression."
Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor
Iraq has called on the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution calling for the immediate withdrawal of Turkish troops from its soil.
Christopher Dickey, Daily Beast
The Nobel committee in Norway awards Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos the coveted Peace Prize days after the Colombian people rejected his deal in a referendum.
James Sherr, Moscow Times
In a world where pariah status is earned rather than conferred, Russia would be a plausible contender. One would assume as much when both the U.S. and British ambassadors to the UN accuse it of barbarism. But for the most part, the West remains divided between those who regard selective partnership with Russia as a necessary evil and those who view it as an existential imperative.
Konrad Yakabuski, Globe & Mail
Barack Obama has left his successor facing a new Cold War against an inscrutable foe.
Charles Krauthammer, NY Daily News
Only amid the most bizarre, most tawdry, most addictive election campaign in memory could the real story of 2016 be so effectively obliterated, namely, that with just four months left in the Obama presidency, its two central pillars are collapsing before our eyes: domestically, its radical reform of American health care, aka Obamacare; and abroad, its radical reorientation of American foreign policy â disengagement marked by diplomacy and multilateralism.
Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
Obama was not merely wrong when he accused Peresâ??s detractors of support for slavery, he was maliciously wrong.
James Stavridis, Foreign Policy
Why rejecting the Trans-Pacific Partnership would be a colossal mistake.
Sam Haselby, Aeon
Science once communicated in a polyglot of tongues, but now English rules alone. How did this happen â and at what cost?
F. Halime, Ozy
Known for not losing its own to a scattered diaspora, the Lebanese community is focusing on its homeland again.
Thomas Edsall, New York Times
Clarke & Courtney, USA Today
Killings could reach scale of Rwanda genocide as Russia exploits U.S. election-year uncertainties.
Stephen Booth, Telegraph
There is, it is said, an intense dispute in the Cabinet about whether Brexit should mean that the UK leaves the EU'
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
For real.
Michael Flynn, Fox News
New evidence reveals that Hillary Clinton's actions in Libya were not just disastrous policy, but a violation of U.S. anti-terrorism law.
Paul Scharre, War on the Rocks
From Chinese expansion in the South China Sea, to Russian aggression in the Ukraine, to Iranian activities across the Middle East, many of the U.S. military's toughest challenges today are not âÂÂwarâ as we traditionally define it. They aren't peace either. They lie in a âÂÂgray zone,â as many have called these situations, somewhere in between.
Joseph Nye, Project Syndicate
The political revolt against the "establishment elites" in many Western democracies over the last year has caused many to declare that globalization is in retreat. But it may be premature to draw such broad conclusions.
Eric Scigliano, Observer
Politicians flounder and demagogues huff and puff over this âÂÂunprecedentedâ immigration pressure. In fact, it all more or less happened 1,640 years ago, on Europe'sâÂÂthat is, the Roman Empire'sâÂÂtroubled border.Ã
