Liz Sly, Washington Post
Many have suffered under ISIS, but the misery inflicted on Sunnis will resonate for generations.
Lynsey Chutel, Quartz
With Castro dead, Africa loses a friend.
Jeffrey Towson, L.A. Times
Hollywood studios have been coming to grips with the fact that China will soon be the world's largest market for entertainment. Movies increasingly are co-produced by cash-rich Chinese moguls. Chinese stars are cast inà supporting roles. Praise for Chinese culture is being randomly stuck into scripts. In some cases, such ploys have paid off: 2015's âÂÂFurious 7â grossed even more in China ($390 million) than in the United States ($353 million).
Ali Bayramoglu, Al-Monitor
A correlation exists between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's authoritarian shift and the popular support he receives, making for a paradox that is fast dragging Turkey toward a paternalistic rule.
Paul Gillespie, Irish Times
Growing realisation that the fundamental principles underlying the EU are at risk.
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
The argument that impeachment would empower and protect the corrupt is now completely vindicated.
Patrick Marnham, The Spectator
Whereas Marine Le Pen has been greatly encouraged by the populist surge in the United States, the French electorate is not normally influenced by events across the Atlantic. Donald Trump has no champions in France â even those encouraged by his success routinely describe his performance in the US Republican primary as uncouth, and 75 per cent of the French electorate (according to, yes, another opinion poll) âÂÂdislike' him. Trump is sometimes described as... Читать дальше...
Feldenkirchen & Knaup, Der Spiegel
European Parliament President Martin Schulz announced this week that he is moving to Berlin to assume a role on the national political stage. Many believe he would make a strong contender for chancellor for the center-left Social Democrats. But one man stands in his way -- a friend.
Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg View
It'll take a lot more than Fidel's death to revive a moribund system.
Ted Cruz, National Review
There is more than enough evidence to judge the Castros' legacy for what it is: the systematic exploitation and oppression of the Cuban people.
Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail
Beijing is preparing to step into the West's power vacuum with an unprecedented bid to build a world economy around itself.
Conrad Black, Natl Post
Trudeau will soon have the choice of strutting the world stage as a peacemaker while freeloading off U.S. protection, or leading a country no one listens to.
Edward Luce, Financial Times
It was tempting to believe history had turned a page. Alas, posterity may see Barack Obama's 2008 election as a detour from the path an angry America took after 9/11.
Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
Eulogies from around the world may exalt Fidel Castro, but the just-deceased Cuban ruler was no romantic revolutionary figure. Instead, he was an egocentric coward who didn't allow a single free election in 57 years, only granted interviews to sympathetic reporters and prevented human rights investigations.
Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
When I spent a week with Fidel, a dictator who outlasted 10 American presidents, and who nearly outlasted an 11th, I found a man who sensed that change was coming, and that the Cuban system would not last forever.
Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
Fidel Castro wanted an independent path for Cuba. He leaves a shattered society and a desperately poor country behind him, less able to shape its destiny than it was in 1959.
