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Expect 2019 to test global stability
The resignation of US Defense Secretary James Mattis stands not only as a radical disassociation from the actions of the president he served, but as a foreboding for the future, a warning for 2019 - and beyond. And, for all ...
The torture of Theresa May
Now is the time for all good citizens to put their elected politicians on the rack. Torture is what tyrants visited - and, often, still visit - upon real or presumed enemies among their own people. But subjecting their leaders ...
Another Brexit referendum is a terrible idea
In the “careful what you wish for” stakes, few issues rank higher than the plan for a second referendum by those in the UK hoping for a reversal of the country’s June 2016 vote to leave the European Union (the ...
For governments right and left, a season of discontent
Democratic governments are rarely popular for extended periods, and often have to scrape by with low polls, noisy demonstrations and constant pressure from the media. And though authoritarian regimes can squash dissent and muzzle the news, they too face rising ...
The prolonged torture that is Brexit
BBC political correspondent Chris Mason stood outside of the mother of parliaments on Monday morning and said he didn’t have the “foggiest idea” about where Brexit is going. Then he made what have been described as “exasperated noises” - and ...
A US midterm message that resonates across the Atlantic
One of the major political messages of the US midterm elections has been that rural voters dominate the cities. While the Democrats made enough gains in urban areas to take control of the House of Representatives, Republicans were able to ...
Pondering a post-Merkel Europe
One of the world’s most famed political cartoons is John Tenniel’s “Dropping the Pilot.” Published by Punch in 1890, it depicts the dismissal of Otto von Bismarck as chancellor of the German empire by portraying him, in the uniform of ...
Picturing a post-Putin Russia
Putin came to power with a conviction that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the 20th century’s greatest geopolitical catastrophe, a belief he repeated before his last election. He has labored to bring Russia back to a position of ...
Voters warm to secret services
In the early hours of Tuesday in the northern UK cities of Sheffield and Chesterfield, armed police blew open doors of homes and a Muslim community center, arresting four men aged between 22 and 41. Scanty information given to the ...
From Guernica’s ruins, a lesson in fake news
A LITTLE over 80 years ago, on April 26, 1937, German and Italian warplanes bombed the Basque town of Guernica, razing much of it. Italian planes targeted a bridge, while the German Condor legion hit the town with conventional and ...
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