Tim Horley, The Atlantic
Today’s authoritarians use legal measures to subvert constitutional constraints on their power.
Luis Rappoport, Worldcrunch
The provincial leadership structures in the two countries operate in very different ways, particularly when it comes to incentives.
Brent Jang, G&M
F. Giugliano, Bloomberg View
The country’s fiscal measures make sense, but it would have been far better for the euro zone to have had a coordinated action plan -- and fund.
Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs
How to Make a U.S.-Taliban Peace Deal Stick
Aaron David Miller, JTA
A decade and a half later, I have come to realize that I was clueless as to how far an administration might actually go in furthering Israel’s narrative at the expense of Palestinians — and how much they could undermine U.S. interests in the process. While negotiation teams I have served on may have acted as a partial broker, the bias of Trump’s peace team makes our missteps seem trivial in comparison.
John Taylor, Project Syndicate
With politicians proposing policies that would vastly expand the size of the government and its involvement in the economy, it is clear that too many Americans have forgotten the lessons of the twentieth century. As Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman pointed out long ago, deviating from market principles is a recipe for disaster.
E. Katz & E. Cohen, TNI
It is crucial for the Palestinians to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to take advantage of the historic freeze. This is likely the last moment before the situation becomes irreversible.
Vicky Xiuzhong Xu et al, Australian Strategic Policy Institute
‘Re-education’, forced labour and surveillance beyond Xinjiang.
Amel Boubekeur, ECFR
The Hirak protest movement has revealed flaws in Algeria’s ruling system, which lacks the tools to reinvent itself or negotiate a new social contract with the people.
Kathy Gilsinan, Defense One
For George W. Bush, the goal was the destruction of al-Qaeda, the total defeat of the Taliban, and a “stable and free and peaceful” Afghanistan. For Barack Obama, it was a degraded Taliban that could be reasoned with but would have torenounce violence, respect women, and abide by the Afghan constitution. For...
Juliette Love & Rod Nordland, NYT
In a century of American wars, no other has been rendered quite so invisible to the public. Americans don’t want to fight in Afghanistan, they don’t want to die in Afghanistan and they don’t really want to hear about Afghanistan.
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