George Will, National Review
It is a redundant reminder that the rhetorical discord between the parties exaggerates their actual differences.
James Forsyth, Spectator
The worse things are for the Tories, the better for Boris Johnson. If the Tories were ahead in the polls, he'd have little hope of becoming leader. MPs would choose someone more clubbable, less
Charles Hurt, Wash. Times
President Trump's escalating tariff war with China is so perfectly in keeping with his 2016 campaign.
Niall Ferguson & Eyck Freymann, The Atlantic
The Democrats are rapidly becoming the party of the youngand the consequences could be profound.
Brandon Weichert, American Spectator
Recently, the Trump Administration announced that it was deploying both an American aircraft carrier as well as B-52 bombers to the Middle East as a show of force against the Iranians. According to National Security Adviser John Bolton, intelligence provided...
J. McLaughlin, Ozy
Trump has given up allied leverage over Iran, risking a collision course with chaos in the region.
Paul Taylor, Politico EU
Westminster is too busy fighting itself to exploit Franco-German Brexit rift.
Colin Kahl & Jon Wolfsthal, LATimes
Bolton has never met a rogue state he didn't want to isolate, topple and attack, and North Korea has long been at the top of his hit list.
Alex Barker, Financial Times
The political alliance that dominates Europe took shape on a cold March night in 1998, over dinner in a bungalow in western Germany. Around Helmut Kohl's table were a gaggle of premiers and backroom fixers, the German chancellor's trusted circle on European affairs. It was to be a fateful night for EU politics, whose heavy hangover Europe's centre-right is wrestling with before next week's elections.
Aleks Eror, WPR
BELGRADE, SerbiaThe night in mid-March when protesters stormed the headquarters of Serbia's public broadcaster began like many recent Saturday nights in the Serbian capital. Weekly protests against the government of President Aleksandar Vucic had entered their fourth month, and several thousand people turned out for a mile-long march across the city. They planned to vent their frustrations over escalating political violence and democratic backsliding in the country.
Marc Thiessen, Fox News
Those who suggest Trump started this trade war with China have it backward. Beijing has been waging economic warfare on the United States for years.
Kemal Kirici, Brookings Institution
The decision to invalidate the result of the Istanbul mayoral election brings Turkish democracy one big step closer to death, unless the re-run meets the standards of a fair and free election that genuinely reflects the will of the Istanbulites.
Axel Van Trotsenburg, Miami Herald
Jamaica is well known for its beautiful beaches, Bob Marley and its reggae music. What is less known, however, is that the Caribbean island started a silent revolution after being one of the most indebted developing countries in the world. Jamaica has shown an extraordinary macroeconomic turnaround.
Victor Hanson, NYP
The Chinese Communist government does not have so much a strategy to translate its economic ascendance into global hegemony as several strategies. All of them are brilliantly insidious. On matters
Elias Groll, Foreign Policy
Fake news articles and tweets sought to cast Saudi Arabia and other rivals of Tehran in a bad light.
Tom Valek, Carnegie Europe
Europe, like the rest of the world, will undergo powerful political, economic, and social transformations over the coming decades. Is the EU ready to manage the transitions?
Maxim Trudolyubov, Moscow Times
Opinion The middle class has become critically dependent on the government.
Richard Herzinger, American Interest
From Nietzsche to Mann to Merkel, German culture has long had a soft spot for Russia.
Uday Balakrishnan, The Hindu
It's the price we must pay to safely walk on the street, watch a movie in a theatre or shop in the bazaar
Lara Seligman, Foreign Policy
The latest front in a return to Cold War rivalry is the effort to build an all-American rocket for military launches.
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
Slowly but steadily they build up their economic, military, and technological superiority at our expense
Glyn Ford, SCMP
North Korea is in purdah and the signs are not positive, but Trump is open to a quick deal, and a third summit might just happen this year if South Korea steps into the breach.
James Crabtree, Nikkei
Election rhetoric should not hide missed opportunities for better reforms
Andrey Panevin, Lowy
