Ferial Haffajee, Daily Maverick
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s performance has been patchy. Health – good; securitisation – bad; economic relief – decent. He should focus on just one of his two jobs, say analysts.
Hannah Beech, New York Times
Thousands of young people, borrowing from Harry Potter and other pop culture touchstones, are calling on the army and its allies to get out of politics.
Terry Glavin, Maclean’s
Terry Glavin: It turned out that the rest of the world wasn’t as keen on neo-liberal multilateralism as Team Trudeau had imagined
Conrad Black, Nat’l Post
The WE controversy appears to be more of the same juvenilism, tokenism and narcissism we've seen from this government
Alex Berezow, ACSH
Today, Vladimir Putin announced that Russian regulators have approved the world's first coronavirus vaccine. He's so confident in it that he claims that one of his daughters has been vaccinated already. So, who wants to sign up for Putin's vaccine?
A Kolesnikov, Moscow Times
Opinion | Why civil societies in Russia and Belarus are uniting faster than the two countries themselves.
M. Karnitschnig, Politico EU
Blaming US president helps Berlin dodge deeper questions over Nord Stream 2 project
S. Chu, NYT
China wants to swallow up Hong Kong's remaining freedoms. But it can't be allowed to arrest, on American soil, a U.S. citizen.
Veronika Velch & Vadym Miskyi, RCW
Ted Lieu, Bulletin
When Barack Obama became the first US president to visit Hiroshima in 2016, he stated: “Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us.” Those words ring true today. At the 75th anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we stand in another moment of global chaos and profound loss.
Henry Sokolski, The American Interest
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. With the world ever more dangerous, and with rising authoritarian challengers emboldened, a look at what the next 75 years of the Bomb might bring.
Shikha Dalmia, The Week
It is often the case that those who are the least entitled to complain about something do so the loudest. So it is with conservatives and so-called "cancel culture" — firing or de-platforming individuals because of their views. Hardly a day goes by when some conservative somewhere doesn't warn Americans that the lefty "
Jonathan Rauch, Persuasion
Six signs that show you're not being criticized; you're being canceled.
B. Latza Nadeau & L. Borghese, CNN
A horrifying moment in the Covid-19 pandemic hit Italy on March 27, 2020, when the civil protection authorities announced that 969 people had died in just 24 hours. In the weeks before that, images of coffins stacked up in church parlors and being driven down the streets of the northern Italian town of Bergamo in a caravan of military trucks poured into the homes of Italians, by...
Moscow Times, Moscow Times
Judd Devermont, CSIS
U.S. policy toward Africa is in need of a facelift—in both substance and strategic vision—to keep up with the continent’s shifting demographics and growing influence on the world stage. Africans will be integral to addressing some of the world’s thorniest problems. The continent holds three nonpermanent seats at the UN Security Council, and it represents the largest and most unified bloc at the UN General Assembly.
Raj Verma, EA Forum
India–China relations have hit a nadir after the recent clash between Indian and Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley. Although disengagement and de-escalation is underway, tensions remain high. Some argue that there has...
J. Carafano & L. Coffey, National Interest
Resolving differences with Kosovo could be the key to Serbia’s emergence as an important force in regional development and stability.
