J. Schanzer, NP
It may be that after years of vitriolic debates and nasty rhetoric, Democrats and Republicans actually agreed on more than they were willing to admit.
Bel Trew, Independent
ven the most fervent supporters of the protests called for 25 January did not believe they could amount to much.
Sudha Ramachandran, Diplomat
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not a leader given to compromise. Has he finally met his match in India's farmers?
J. Brown et al, The Bulletin
After the most bizarre presidency in US history, you are now about to take charge and begin restoring a sense of normalcy to our troubled nation. But these are anything but normal times, and your task will be enormous.
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
Two years ago, a Russian friend told me that he thought that Alexei Navalny posed a serious danger to Vladimir Putin. I was sceptical. Russia had weathered the international condemnation and economic sanctions imposed after its annexation of Crimea in 2014. The country had just staged a successful World Cup. President Putin seemed well entrenched in the Kremlin.
Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs
Biden Can't Restore American Primacy—and Shouldn't Try
Owen Matthews, Spectator
The protests began in Vladivostok, on Russia's Pacific coast, and spread Westwards across 85 cities across the country's nine time zones. The ritual was familiar enough from the last major wave of protests in the summer of 2019 - several thousand banner-carrying protesters calling for the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, an overwhelming show of force by the police, baton charges, cracked heads, mass arrests. By the end...
Sultan al-Kanj, Al Monitor
IDLIB, Syria — A group that goes by the name Ansar Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Brigade claimed responsibility for an attack on a Turkish army post in the western countryside of Aleppo on Jan. 16.
Marc Pierini & Francesco Siccardi, Carn. Europe
Turkey's eroding democracy and assertive foreign policy loom large on the international stage. In 2021, the EU and the United States must protect their interests by containing Turkey's disruptive behavior while maintaining economic and security ties.
Josie Le Blond, WPR
BERLIN—German Chancellor Angela Merkel's preferred successor, Armin Laschet, might have won the leadership of her center-right Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, but he still faces an uphill battle to lead the country's most powerful political force into a general election in September—the first of the post-Merkel era.
Michael Bociurkiw
Extraordinary images have emerged Saturday from across Russia as tens of thousands come out to protest the imprisonment of leading opposition figure, Alexei Navaly. Riot police detained over 2,500 and can be seen bashing and detaining children and the elderly. The geolocation map shows protests right across Russia's time zones, and in some locations in temperatures as lows as -50 Celsius.
Uliana Pavlova & Felix Light, Moscow Times
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in over 100 towns and cities across Russia on Saturday to demand the release of jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny in one of the broadest waves of nationwide protest the country has seen in recent years.
David Ignatius, Washington Post
Danny Sjursen, TomDispatch
Hard as it is to believe in this time of record pandemic deaths, insurrection, and an unprecedented encore impeachment, Joe Biden is now officially at the helm of...
Graham Allison, National Interest
Raghida Dergham, The National
If so, this is a good first step. But the new administration must rely on its regional allies to resolve long-standing issues with Tehran
Deborah Pearlstein, War on the Rocks
As the long post-9/11 era of U.S. counter-terrorism enters its third decade, it has grown easier to identify distinct genres within the sizable body of work assessing the legal costs of U.S. actions. One body of work has focused squarely on the damage counter-terrorism policies have inflicted on individual civil liberties and human rights, including how expansive surveillance compromised the right...
