Pakistan’s Sharif Resigns
Pakistan’s Supreme Court today ruled ousted Prime Minsister Nawas Sharif today by ruling against him in a case involving undeclared assets. The ruling is the result of a probe launched against the PM...
View ArticleTrump Delivers in Rust Belt
From the Wall Street Journal, a more important story than most of the media noise about White House dysfunction and Beltway shenanigans: Foxconn Technology Group, which helped turn China into the...
View ArticleLook to the Private Sector, not Government, to Save Health Care
Jeff Bezos, now the world’s richest man, seems to have figured out that the next wave of great American fortunes are going to be made by people who figure out ways to cut the inefficiency out of the...
View ArticleThe Grim Lessons of Charlie Gard
A U.K. death panel has forced parents to abandon hope for their baby’s life. The Wall Street Journal reports: The parents of Charlie Gard abandoned their legal fight to take the terminally ill...
View ArticlePresident Trump Sweats in Public
President Donald Trump’s latest ruminations, revealed in an article in the Washington Post, about pardoning himself, relatives, and close aides, are signs that the more he sees of the talented team...
View ArticleThe Private Putin Meeting and Trump’s Legitimacy
At a dinner at the G20 summit, President Trump got up and walked over to Vladimir Putin for a one-on-one conversation, with only Putin’s interpreter present, that lasted for anywhere between a few...
View ArticleMacron Denounces Anti-Semitism
A clear message, and an important one, from French President Emmanuel Macron: Standing at a site from which thousands of French Jews were sent to their deaths during the Holocaust, President Emmanuel...
View ArticleWhy Aren’t Greens More Worried About the Budget?
The latest report on the status of our entitlement programs shows that Medicare will run out of money in 2028 and Social Security just six years later—a reminder that our society is gliding...
View ArticleTrump Scandal Festers While Country Burns
The latest revelations in the ongoing Trump-Russia saga confirm what most sentient beings have long understood: that there is more than an adequate basis for investigations into the relationships...
View ArticleShow Me the Money!
Empty financial promises lie at the very core of the Paris Accords—a promise of $100 billion per year, paid indefinitely into the future by the developed world to developing countries as the price of...
View ArticleLow Turnout and Macron’s Partial Victory
The big news this Monday is that Emmanuel Macron has achieved his sweeping victory in French legislative elections. On paper, at least, he is now the youngest and most powerful French leader since...
View ArticleA Smarter Approach to Cuba
President Trump will roll back major components of the Obama administration’s opening to Cuba with a new slate of travel and business restrictions, reports Reuters: Taking a tougher approach against...
View ArticleThe Ukrainian Reformation
Walter Russell Mead: Welcome to Washington! Let me begin by asking—what brings you here?Oleksandr Danylyuk: I’m here to attend the spring meetings, the premier events of the financial world. We have a...
View ArticleDid Israel Just Win the British Election?
It looks like Theresa May will stay Prime Minister, for now. May announced that she will be forming a government with the Democratic Unionists: The prime minister is expected to see the Queen at about...
View ArticleIn the Anglosphere, Diversity Is Strength
Without ever mentioning the name of Donald Trump, Canada has defined a new foreign policy agenda in stark opposition to the American President’s priorities. The Wall Street Journal: In a speech to the...
View ArticleSqueezing Qatar to Make Hamas Scream
With the Saudi and UAE-led power play against Qatar underway it seems that a major squeeze on Hamas in in the works. As Asharq Al-Awsat reports: Hamas, a sister movement to the Brotherhood, now fears...
View ArticleRobots Could Block Path out of Poverty
Over at Axios, MIT economist Daron Acemoglu explains how robots could block the usual path to industrialization for developing countries: The traditional exit from poverty for poor countries — followed...
View ArticleJuncker: EU Can’t Extort (or Enforce) Democracy
Jean-Claude Juncker is rebuffing renewed calls from Berlin to make EU funding dependent on members’ adherence to democratic governance and the rule of law. Financial Times: Jean-Claude Juncker, the...
View ArticleMemorial Day
Today, on Memorial Day, beyond remembering those that have made the ultimate sacrifice for the United States—twenty-one in the past year in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan—it’s worth remembering that many...
View ArticleTrump’s Gifts to Merkel and Macron
Foreign policy is a funny thing: the results are often the opposite of what you want. Clearly President Trump went to the two European summits (the NATO summit in Brussels and the G-7 summit in Sicily)...
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