Daniel Tilles & Tom Junes, Foreign Policy
Promising newcomers are threatening to tear apart the country's two-party system in every direction.
Damon Linker, The Week
How can the leader of the free world not allow other countries to be free?
Lyle Goldstein, National Interest
A Russian defense analyst conjures a U.S. military intervention scenario in Venezuela. It is not a pretty picture.
Kristine Lee, World Politics Review
Business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month warned that China has overtaken the United States in the development of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, such as fifth-generation wireless or 5G. There's almost an endless stream of people who are showing up and developing new companies, Blackstone's CEO Stephen Schwarzman told one panel of his frequent trips to China. The venture business there in AI-oriented companies is really exploding with growth.
Amberin Zaman, Al Monitor
As one of the top countries of origin for foreign IS recruits, Tunisia has struggled to address domestic threats of returning jihadis and how to de-radicalize these youths.
Daniel DePetris, Spectator
When we think of frosty diplomatic relations between states, members of the European Union don't typically come to mind. And yet the word frosty' is exactly what the relationship between Italy and