Kortunov & Divsallar, MT
Opinion As U.S.-Iran tensions are changing course toward a possible military confrontation, the Russian factor is becoming more crucial.
Esther Solano, Global Americans
Bolsonaro's popularity has plummeted after only one hundred days in office. The reasons were obvious even before he took office on January 1, but few thought political turmoil would come this quickly.
James Pethokoukis, The Week
Such a standoff is extremely unlikely
Anne Applebaum, New York Review of Books
Americans usually remember the end of communism as the result of a binary battle between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, while most Europeans tend to see that era through the prism of their own national memories. Almost everyone downplays one of the most important sources of the Soviet empire's collapse: the civilizational pull of Western Europe, as well as the transatlantic alliance to which it belonged. The Poles who voted for anti-Communists in June 1989... Читать дальше...
Elisa Martinuzzi, Bloomberg View
Eric Kaufmann, Quillette
Right-wing populists have won an unprecedented 57 seats in elections to the European Union's Parliament, up from 30 in 2014. In Hungary, Viktor Orban's Fidesz won a majority of 52 percent. In Italy, Matteo Salvini's Lega topped the poll at 30 percent, in Britain, Nigel Farage's Brexit Party won, while in France, Marine Le Pen pipped Emmanuel Macron 23 percent to 22 percent.
Simon Waldman, National
The fall of the northwestern province would mean mass displacement of Syrians across the border and pressure to withdraw from borderland territories
Ayla J. Yackley, Al-M.
Ekrem Imamoglu, who won the election as Istanbul mayor in March before he was forced to step down, has expanded his support ahead of the doover election on June 23.
David Wemer, Atlantic Council
Europe's two major parties suffered considerable losses to smaller partiesboth Euroskeptic and pro-European integrationin elections to the European Parliament from May 23 to May 26. While the center-right European People's Party (EPP) and...
Rick Moran, PJ Media
EU Elections: Populist Wave in Europe Shows No Sign of Ebbing
Stephen Blank, The Hill
Whatever one thinks of Mueller's report, its conclusions do not provide grounds for improving ties with Moscow.
Minaam Shah, National Interest
The recent crisis depicts that the United States has lost considerable ground as an overarching influence in South Asia.
Abdolrasool Divsallar, LobeLog
by Abdolrasool Divsallar On May 15, Iran announced that it would stop implementing some of its obligations under the 2015 nuclear deal (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA) as a first respo?
Abraham Zere, Al Jazeera
On this year's Independence Day, Eritreans are dreaming of a post-Afwerki Eritrea.
David Gardner, Financial Times
Rows with Russia and the US over defence procurement could turn into a crisis for the president
Jon Finer, Foreign Affairs
The U.S. Army's official history of the Iraq war erodes the tenuous consensus on what went wrong in Iraq and thus makes another damaging conflictthis time with Iranmore likely.
Sabena Siddiqui, Al Monitor
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif visits Islamabad with an eye toward receiving help in dealing with Iran's economic woes and its issues with Washington and Riyadh.
John Rossomando, Examiner
A disturbing trend of open support for the Palestinian Marxist-Leninist terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, or PFLP, has emerged on the political Left amid rising anti-Semitism that hides behind the label of anti-Zionism.
Ferdinando Giugliano, B-View
Keegan Elmer, SCMP
Prospects for Washington and Beijing reaching a deal to end the trade war have dwindled as tit-for-tat tariffs have returned. But the stumbling blocks go beyond import duties, and China may not be prepared to cross its red lines'.
C. Rondeaux, WPR
Scott Ritter, TAC
To get a sense of why Putin meddled in our elections one need go no further than the Obama administration's hijinks.
Katya Cengel, Daily Beast
Visiting the exclusion zone around the exploded reactor 15 years after the disaster turned even simple questions (can I walk on the grass?) into matters of life or death.
Christopher Forth, The Atlantic
In 16th- and 17th-century Europe, physicians, butchers, and executioners alike hawked the salutary effects of Axungia hominis.
Andrew Michta, The American Interest
The West can have an unbeatable hand against Beijing, if it plays its cards right.
