Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker
Brexiteers claim that they can maintain a frictionless open border with the Republic of Ireland after Brexitin the same place that the newly hardened border with the E.U. will be.
Bernard Weinstein, RealClearWorld
Clifford May, Washington Times
Most people want to survive. What could be more natural than that? Most peoples want to survive, too. That's no less natural.
Jim Duffy, The Scotsman
Philosophers, historians and esteemed thinkers have pondered for centuries on what came first: the chicken or the egg. It had to be one or the other, right? Or maybe a being so magnificently supreme just created the chicken, which then lay the egg. And this made me think about what came first at a time when we are undergoing acute stress in the world of business. Who was created first: the entrepreneur or the politician? For entrepreneur one can substitute banker, business person or even shopkeeper. Читать дальше...
Luigi Lonardo, LSE
After two decades in power, Abdelaziz Bouteflika has announced that he will resign as President of Algeria. Luigi Lonardo explains that despite the announcement, there are signs it may not yet be g
Sean O'Grady, Independent
May implied she will shove a reference to the customs union in the political declaration, in the hope the Labour leader will whip his MPs to back her deal
Paul Goodman, Conservative Home
Theresa May's strategic aims, if that is quite the right way of describing them, are as follows. First, to avoid the UK having to participate in European elections after May 22. Second, to draw Labour into co-operating with her deal. Third, if that can't be done, to ensure that they take the blame for not doing so. Fourth, if they are so drawn, to somehow keep her Party onside. Fifth, to try and head off Oliver Letwin and company from restricting her room for manoeuvre. Читать дальше...
Viktoria Gromann, Worldcrunch
Zuzana ?aputov becomes the country's first female head of state, and brings hope to Slovaks looking to end to corruption and to others for a response to populism across Europe.
Jean Pisani-Ferry, Project Syndicate
For decades, Europe has served as a steward of the post-war liberal order, ensuring that economic rules are enforced and that national ambitions are subordinated to shared goals within multilateral bodies. But with the United States and China increasingly mixing economics with nationalist foreign-policy agendas, Europe will have to adapt.
Brandon Christensen, RealClearHistory
Danny Sjursen, TomDispatch
I'm one of the lucky ones. Leaving the madness of Army life with a modest pension and all of my limbs intact feels like a genuine escape. Both the Army and I knew it was time for me to go. I'd tired of carrying water for empire and they'd grown weary of dealing with my dissenting articles and footing the bill for my seemingly never-ending PTSD treatments. Now, I'm society's problem, unleashed into a civilian world I've never gazed upon with adult eyes.
Anna Wieslander, AC
When NATO kicked off Trident Juncture, its largest collective defense exercise in decades in Norway in October 2018, militarily non-aligned Sweden and Finland not only contributed substantial troops, they were actively involved in planning the...
Bulent Aliriza, CSIS
On March 31, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suffered a major rebuke at the hands of Turkish voters when his Justice and Development Party (AKP) candidates failed to win in Istanbul and Ankara in nationwide municipal elections Erdogan described as existential during an intense, personal campaign. Although the AKP is currently challenging the results and there is no immediate threat to Erdogan who will continue to exercise control over national politics until 2023, it is clear... Читать дальше...
M.K. Narayanan, The Hindu
It is premature to read the Islamic State's defeat as the start of a more peaceful phase
Robert Peston, Spectator
It is hard to overstate the magnitude of what happened in Cabinet today because the prime minister and her senior ministers concluded over a record-breaking seven-and-a-half hours that Brexit was
Simon Henderson, The Hill
Riyadh says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, but wants to retain the right to enrich and reprocess.
Jeromin Zettelmeyer, PIIE
German and French politicians have been arguing for a more muscular response from the European Union (EU) to competitive threats from China and the United States. Some of the concerns motivating these calls are valid.
James Stavridis et al, Politico
Experts weigh in on the future of the military alliance.
Michael Auslin, National Review
Reiwa, means beautiful harmony, and is derived from ancient Japanese poetry.
