Joseph Bosco, The Hill
Democratic countries, led by the United States, should mount a sustained response to China's extensive disinformation campaign against the West.
Matt Stoller, Irish Times
Google and Facebook are the subject of big antitrust investigations. This is good news for our democracy and the free press
Noah Barkin, Berlin Pol. Jour.
On her trip to China, Chancellor Angela Merkel did little to distance Berlin from Beijing.
Y. von Eisenhart Rothe, Spiegel
In Bangladesh, the children of poor families are often forced to work as domestic help for richer families. Many receive neither payment nor free time, nor even a proper place to sleep. Most of them are girls.
R. Walker, The Conversation
As deforestation rates in Brazil rise, it's worth asking whether the country can repeat the successes of the last decade. Current trends don't bode well.
Barnes et al, NYT
American intelligence officials had previously tried to extract the source from Russia in 2016, but the informant had initially refused.
A. Oppenheimer, Herald
This is no joke: Venezuela the most repressive regime in the Americas since the days of Argentina and Chile's military dictatorships in the 1970s is expected to win a seat at the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council.I almost choked on my coffee when I first heard about this in a recent interview with Ernesto Araujo, Brazil's foreign minister. But when I contacted several human-rights groups to see if such a travesty were possible, they all confirmed that it's likely to happen.
John Fund, National Review
It's destined to grow in importance.
Cal Thomas, Washington Times
President Trump was right to cancel a secret meeting with leaders of the Taliban and the Afghan government following two bomb attacks by the terrorist group that killed 10 civilians, an American soldier and a Romanian service member in heavily fortified Kabul.
David Pilling, Financial Times
Tom McTague, The Atlantic
The compromises made to reach the Good Friday Agreement offer hope Britain will solve its Brexit riddle. Yet a failed effort a quarter century prior is a cautionary tale.
Rachel Sylvester, Times of London
Boris Johnson wants to turn the next general election into a contest between him and Jeremy Corbyn rather than a choice between the Conservatives and Labour or even Leave and Remain. Already...
William Shawcross, Spectator
This is one of the most crucial weeks in modern British history. We have a prime minister and cabinet who understand the stakes in terms of our future independence. But the forces fighting them some
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Opinion In local elections, frustrated Muscovites voted for Communists and oddballs to keep out pro-Putin candidate.
Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Much of Washington and its foreign policy elite believe that Americans want to retreat from the world, but while Americans may be searching for a new way to engage with the world, the 2019 Chicago Council Survey demonstrates that retreating from the world is not what the American public has in mind.
Allison Fedirka, Geopolitical Futures
After months of little progress, it seems the United States may be getting closer to removing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from office. Until relatively recently, Washington had been pushing to unseat Maduro by throwing its support behind opposition leader Juan Guaido, hoping that he could inspire an uprising that could overthrow the president. So far, that strategy hasn't worked. So Washington has come up with a new plan: negotiate a transition directly with the Maduro government.
Colin Dueck, National Interest
It was the failures and frustrations of a Wilsonian framework that helped lead to the Trump phenomenon in the first place.
