Week of May 8, 2017 Archives
RealClearWorld
Evening
Edition
Monday, May 8
What Happened to bin Laden’s Family?
Cathy Scott-Clark
&
Adrian Levy
,
Guardian
A Tory Storm Is Brewing in Great Britain
John O'Sullivan
,
National Review
After Macron’s Win, France Is Divided in Four
Thomas Guenole
,
Globe and Mail
Macron and the Revival of Europe
Roger Cohen
,
New York Times
Macron’s Foreign Policy: Claiming the Tradition
M. Lafont Rapnouil
&
J. Shapiro
,
ECFR
There May Be No Alternative to Merkel, After All
Leonid Bershidsky
,
Bloomberg View
State Election Loss Spells Trouble for Schulz Candidacy
Florian Gathmann
,
Spiegel
Trump Wants a New Afghan Surge. That’s a Terrible Idea
Douglas Wissing
,
Politico
Autocracy Has Fallen in Macedonia, Nationalism Has Not
P. Sarachini
,
Balkan Insight
Why Macron's Win Is Good for American Conservatives
Tom Rogan
, DC
Examiner
Rise of Hard-Line Islamist Groups Rattles Moderate Indonesia
Washington Post
Tuesday, May 9
Germany's Enthusiasm for Macron Won't Last
Clive Crook
,
Bloomberg View
The Center Holds in France -- But for How Long?
Michael J. Totten
,
World Affairs
Populists Don't Need to Win to Reshape Western Democracy
Shadi Hamid
,
Atlantic
Trump on Collision Course With South Korea's New Leader
David Sanger
,
NY Times
Why French Voters Rejected Marine Le Pen
Arthur Goldhammer
,
Foreign Affairs
Rouhani Rivals Are Making Pledges Iran Cannot Afford
Bijan Khajehpour
,
Al-Monitor
Why So Tense? Understanding Kenya’s High-Stakes Vote
Sekou Otondi
,
All Africa
Why China Won't 'Solve' the North Korea Crisis for America
Harry Kazianis
,
RCW
Vanishing Act: What Happened to Macau’s North Koreans?
Raquel Carvalho
, SCMP
America, We Could Have Been Canada
Adam Gopnik
,
The New Yorker
Wednesday, May 10
Is America a Failing State?
David Rothkopf
,
Foreign Policy
It Was Inevitable That Trump Would Fire Comey
Jacob Heilbrunn
,
National Interest
How We Would Cover Comey if It Happened in Another Country
Josh Keating
,
Slate
Korea Just Showed the World How to Do Democracy
Ishaan Tharoor
,
Wash Post
A Moon Rises Over South Korea
Robert Manning
,
Atlantic Council
Crisis or Stasis in the Western World?
Ross Douthat
,
New York Times
Le Pen's Party Is Here to Stay
Anne-Sylvaine Chassany
,
Financial Times
Russia’s Imperial Amnesia
Kirk Bennett
,
American Interest
In Russia, Leaked Documents Rattle the Kremlin
Nathan Hodge
,
Wall Street Journal
Iran Guards Look Beyond Vote to Next Supreme Leader
B. Dehghanpisheh
,
Reuters
North Korea Needs a Deng Xiaoping
James Lewis
,
American Thinker
The Real Reason Why Spaniards Eat Late
Jessica Jones
,
BBC Travel
Thursday, May 11
Trump’s Big Russia Reset
Michael Crowley
,
Politico
The Comeback of Angela Merkel
Constanze Stelzenmuller
,
Washington Post
China's Economic Reforms Have Hit a Wall
Scott Kennedy
,
RealClearWorld
Why Liberating Mosul Won't Lead to the End of ISIS
Shelly Kittleson
,
Al-Monitor
In the Horrorscape of Aleppo
Charles Glass
,
New York Review of Books
The Iranian Clergy's Political Irrelevance
Mehdi Khalaji
,
Washington Institute
Why Is Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro Still in Power?
The Economist
What Spain Gets Right on Health Care
Carolyn McClanahan
,
New York Times
China Has World's Biggest Productivity Problem
Michael Schuman
,
Bloomberg View
The Kushner Family and the Complex Case for EB-5 Reform
Kriston Capps
,
CityLab
Greens Hold Power Balance After Upset British Columbia Vote
Kane
&
Omand
,
Star
Friday, May 12
Diplomacy Is Power
Stephen Walt
,
New York Times
NATO Chief Finds a New Friend in Trump
Matthias Gebauer
&
Peter Muller
,
Der Spiegel
Sending More Troops to Afghanistan Won’t Win War
D. Davis
,
American Conservative
What Happens to the Russia Investigation Now?
Julia Ioffe
,
The Atlantic
The Cost of Fixing Russia's Economy
Xander Snyder
,
Geopolitical Futures
The Importance of the Venice Biennale
Economist