Dan Haverty, Foreign Policy
The explosion has killed 100 people and left 250,000 homeless. Lebanon's government says it was an accident.
ABC Australia
W. James Antle III, The American Conservative
Restrainers on the right must stop being passive observers in a debate Trump and their libertarian allies have already joined.
H. French, WPR
With polls making it appear increasingly likely that Donald Trump has entered the twilight of his presidency and could be defeated in the November election, it is not too soon to focus on the blind spots and liabilities that come with his Democratic challenger.
Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, Bush Center
Isabel Hardman, Spectator
Andrea Kendall-Taylor et al, WOTR
N. Gvosdev, Russia Matters
While Russia is not a superpower, it remains one of the few countries that both defines its interests in global rather than regional terms and retains limited but real global power-projection capabilities. Meanwhile, U.S. national security continues to be guided by the premise that the United States cannot allow another state to become the preponderant power in either Europe or Asia, the two continents Russia famously spans. This primer attempts to assess Russia’s impact on a vital U.S. interest... Читать дальше...
Paul Goble, Jamestown
The protests in Khabarovsk and other Russian cities in Siberia and the Far East over the last month (see EDM, August 3) have called attention to something that has been a problem for the central Russian government since at least the 19th
L. Berman & J. Tischler, St. Bridge
C. Esch et al, Der Spiegel
Seventy-five years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima, one nuclear non-proliferation after the other is lapsing. A new arms race is already taking shape between Russia, the United States and China.
Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
Anne Applebaum with Bush Center
Author and historian Anne Applebaum describes how democracy has not been the norm throughout history, cautions that we must watch the rise of foreign authoritarianism through propaganda campaigns, and recalls that no society, even a large one like the United States, operates as an island.
Kal Raustiala, For. Aff.
Fear of Authoritarian Regimes Is Pushing the Film Industry to Self-Censor
John Ivison, National Post
The demonization of ‘the wealthy’ will continue. It is in the Liberals’ political interests to make some Canadians worse off, rather than trying to make life better for everyone.
Kevin Williamson, National Review
Almost a decade ago, I wrote a little book called The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism. When Regnery asked me to write the book, I was happy to do it but wondered whether a book on socialism, a brief conspectus of its grotesque failures, would be necessary or useful. I wondered why anybody would be interested. In the upcoming issue of...
Hussein Ibish, Bloomberg
When anger replaces sorrow, much of it will be directed at the Iran-backed militia.
Faysal Itani, New York Times
Yesterday’s explosion, which destroyed Beirut’s port, much of the city and countless lives, was the result of business as usual.
AFA, Australian Foreign Affairs
Deutsche Welle
People in Germany are largely in favor of US troops withdrawing from their country, a recent survey has revealed. The data showed that voters and politicians tend to disagree on the matter.
Kevin Rudd, Foreign Affairs
How to Keep U.S-Chinese Tensions From Sparking a War
