Eve Fairbanks, New Republic
An energized resistance movement brought down postapartheid strongman Jacob Zuma. But was democracy saved?
Mazal Mualem, Al Monitor
Shortly after announcing early elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is targeting his rivals with rumors, accusations and even fake news, especially former IDF chief Benny Gantz.
J. Batke, CF
As journalists and scholars have reported in recent months on the campaign of religious and cultural repression and incarceration taking place in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, a central question has emerged: How many people has China's government detained as part of the campaign? In the absence of officially reported numbers or other hard evidence, researchers of various stripes have converged on the figure of one million as a common estimate of the people the Chinese government is detaining in Xinjiang's camps. Читать дальше...
Daniel Finkelstein, Times of London
Imagine you are selling your house and have agreed a price with the prospective buyer. Then, days before you are about to exchange, you get a call. It's the buyer. He has, he says, decided not to...
William Courtney, The Hill
But if Russia were to seek to station nuclear forces or infrastructure in the hemisphere, a major diplomatic and military crisis could develop.
Anne Applebaum, Washington Post
The Russian president's nostalgia for the U.S.S.R. could prompt a new land grab.
Bova & Collins, Texas Observer
In the farming town of Dalhart, where voters resoundingly put Trump in office, immigrants have staved off population loss and boosted the local economy.
Josh Campbell, CNN
Josh Campbell writes that the most significant part of Trump's presidential address was the falsehood he chose not to peddle -- terrorists crossing the southern border.
Michael Young, The National
Donald Trump has dismissed the country as nothing more than "sand and death". In doing so, he misunderstands how important it is to his ambitions of containing Iran
Jan Cienski, Politico EU
It's one of the world's most successful economies just don't tell the right-wing government.
Lara Seligman, Foreign Policy
Despite the rhetoric in Washington, the United States continues to conduct air and artillery strikesand has not yet sent troops home.
Eric Lach, New Yorker
The media's fact checkers pledged to hold the President accountable for his falsehoods, but dehumanizing migrants is dangerous in ways that fact-checking can't counteract.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Financial Times
The 2020 US election cycle has officially begun. Elizabeth Warren has launched her campaign for the Democratic nomination for president, and has already completed one of the first rites of passage expected of serious candidates: laying out her views on global affairs for the foreign policy establishment to dissect.
Dalia Hatuqa, Foreign Policy
The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate is selling church land that's ending up in the hands of Israeli settler groups. Its Palestinian Christian congregants are furious.
Satyajit Das, Nikkei Asian Review
Companies and governments must stop tolerating lax local standards
Ferdinando Giugliano, Bloom. View
It took only eight minutes for the populist government to green-light a bailout for Banca Carige, if needed. This may be the first of many rude awakenings.
Mark Leonard & Jeremy Shapiro, ECFR
Top ten trends that will occupy European foreign policymakers in 2019
Sam Gyimah MP, Spectator
Make no mistake, Britain is on the brink. This week Parliament will re-start the debate on the Prime Minister's Brexit Deal, having lost a month. In all likelihood, the House of Commons will vote down
Jorge Castaeda, New York Times
Both leaders threaten the region's hard-won democracy.
Michael Doran, Mosaic
America needs to back up its allies (Israel, Saudi Arabia, and potentially Turkey), and isolate its adversaries (Iran, Russia, China, Islamic State). Everything else is secondary.
Julia Steers, WPR
In early December, the tiny east African country of Burundi garnered international attention when its Foreign Ministry, at the request of President Pierre Nkurunziza, called for the closure of the U.N. human rights office in the capital, Bujumbura. The move was not altogether surprising from a regime once called one of the most prolific slaughterhouses of humans in recent times by former U.N. rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein. Still, it came as a blow to human rights activists... Читать дальше...
Laura Rozen, Al-M
Despite President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will stress US commitment to the region and an anti-Iran theme on trip to Jordan, Egypt and Gulf states.
