Week of May 9, 2016 Archives

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Monday, May 9
How Far Is China From a Cultural Revolution?
Yang Hengjun, Diplomat
Dealing With the North Korean Nuclear Threat
John Carlson, Lowy
The $46 Billion Tie That Binds China and Pakistan
Stratfor
China Will Probably Implode
Peter Navarro, National Interest
What Makes Boko Haram Run?
John Campbell, CFR
How We Advocated for the Iran Deal
Ben Rhodes, Medium
Japan and South Korea May Soon Go Nuclear
Henry Sokolski, WSJ
Reject Isolationism
John Kerry, Boston Globe
Understanding Why Italy Elected Berlusconi
Luigi Zingales, Chi. Tribune
Have We Seen the Last of the Great Famines?
Alex de Waal, NY Times
Did an Israeli General Compare Israel to Nazi Germany?
W. Booth, WP
How the Hamburger Took Over Paris
Erin Zaleski, Daily Beast
Big Changes Wind Up German Energy Plans
Colin Chilcoat, Oil Price
Scotland Voted No to a Second Referendum
Charles Moore, Telegraph
The Catalan Exit Plan
Stephen Brown & Hans Von Der Burchard, Politico EU
London Deals Trumpism Its First Defeat
Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg View
Tuesday, May 10
Sadiq Khan Vs. Donald Trump
Roger Cohen, New York Times
Totally Missing the Point in Yemen
Max Boot, Commentary
Rhodes and the Retailing of the Iran Deal
Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
How Obama Duped Us Into Iran Deal
David Reaboi, The Federalist
Giving Rhodes Credit, But Is Credit Due?
Daniel Drezner, Washington Post
Beating the Blob and Disentangling Alliances
Frederic C. Hof, Atl. Council
The Fight Over Mandela's Legacy
Economist
Trumpism With British Characteristics
Michael Leigh, GMF
Spain Takes On Russia's Kleptocracy
Mark Galeotti, ECFR
Spike or Glut? The Future of Oil
Steve LeVine, Quartz
This Is Not the End for African Oil and Mining
Olusegun Obasanjo, B. Day
Is That King Tut's Secret Chamber? Debate Rages
Peter Hessler, Nat Geo
Chaos in Brazil as Impeachment Vote Annulled
J. Watts, Guardian
The Brexit Debate's Slide Into Pedantry Is Complete
Henry Johnson, FP
Are Liberals Turning Away From Israel?
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
Catastrophe Is Venezuela's New Normal
Mac Margolis, Bloomberg View
Ben Rhodes Needs Some Fresh Air
Fred Kaplan, Slate
Wednesday, May 11
Trump's Miss Universe Foreign Policy
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
American Power Under Challenge
Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch
China's Economy Passes the Point of No Return
Gordon Chang, Nat. Int.
How America Un-Learned China
Patrick Smith, Fiscal Times
Iran's Oil Sector Returns to Form
Matthew Bey, Stratfor
Can Russia's New Missile Wipe Out Texas?
David Axe, Daily Beast
Will Manila Slide Back to Authoritarianism?
Joshua Kurlantzick, CFR
The Geopolitics of a Ukrainian Border Town
Lili Bayer, Geo. Futures
The Tough Sell of Obama's Foreign Policy
Michael Grunwald, Politico
Time for Canada to Reconcile With History
Kathleen Mahoney, G&M
Have Pride in (and Money for) Canada's Trains
Barbara Kay, Nat'l Post
Russia's About to Direct Some More Ire at NATO
Steven Pifer, Brookings
What Obama Really Should Say in Hiroshima
Michael Auslin, Forbes
Cult & Architecture: How Pyongyang Was Built
John Petrushka, NK News
The Western Press Revolts in North Korea
Barbara Demick, New Yorker
Europe's Anti-Semitism Drives My Brexit Vote
Angela Epstein, Telegraph
How the U.S. Can Maintain Pacific Dominance
James Holmes, FP
Finding Out Your Parents Were Russian Spies
Shaun Walker, Guardian
Thursday, May 12
Isolationism Resonates
Bruce Stokes & Xenia Wickett, RealClearWorld
China's Twilight Years
Howard French, The Atlantic
Germany Is the Eurozone's Biggest Problem
Martin Wolf, Financial Times
Europe's Future May Hinge on Jeremy Corbyn
Stephen Bush, New Statesman
Republicans Pray Trump Will 'Evolve' on Foreign Policy
Josh Rogin, Bloomberg View
China Buys Canada
Charlie Gillis, Chris Sorensen & Nancy Macdonald, Maclean's
The First Jewish Military Coup
Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz
Beirut Shocks Its Old Guard
The Economist
Iran's Moderates Prefer Trump
Jeremy Shapiro & Ellie Geranmayeh, Vox
Twitter Deserts the Fight on Terror
Michelle Malkin, New York Post
Chinese Propaganda Is Crushing It on Facebook
Heather Timmons & Josh Horwitz, QZ
French Teen Periscopes Her Suicide
Erin Zaleski, Daily Beast
Welcome to Boomtown Tijuana
Karla Zabludovsky, BuzzFeed
Who Was David Hume?
Anthony Gottlieb, New York Review of Books
The Young, Gay, Conservative German Chancellor-in-Waiting
J. Delcker, Politico
Friday, May 13
The Sykes-Picot Illusion
Robert Zaretsky, RealClearWorld
Ignore Most of This Week's Sykes-Picot Hot Takes
Michael Collins Dunn, MEJ
The Next President's Big Iraq Problem
Amb. Robert S. Ford, RealClearWorld
The Costs of Violence
Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch
Erdogan's Turkish Brew of Total Control
Nuray Mert, Worldcrunch
I'll Take Brexit's Perils Over Europe's Crackpots
Alex Brummer, Daily Mail
Nigels Against the World: The EU Referendum
Ferdinand Mount, London Rev. of Books
Putin Craves Brexit
Garry Kasparov, The Guardian
If China Builds It, Will the Arab World Come?
Kyle Haddad-Fonda, China File
The Origins of Brazil's Turmoil
Uri Friedman, The Atlantic
The Steel City on the Front Lines Against International Hackers
Elias Groll, FPIF
Donald Calls Out Hillary's 'Trigger-Happy' FP
Rania Khalek, The Intercept
No, Donald Trump Has Not Softened Muslim Ban Plan
Jenna Johnson, Wash Post
Who are Syria's Alawites?
Haytham Mouzahem, Al-Monitor
Reviving Western Unity in the Middle East
Simond DeGalbert, WOTR
Saturday, May 14
Xi Embraces Mao's Radical Legacy
Andrew Browne, Wall Street Journal
Poisoned River: Can the Ganges Be Saved?
Justin Rowlatt, BBC
Do You Speak Singlish?
Gwee Li Sui, New York Times
Don't Blame Sykes-Picot for the Mideast Mess
Steven Cook & Amr Leheta, For. Policy
The U.S. Has Yet to Decide What It's Learned in the Mideast
Steven Metz, WP Review
The French Will Make Things Worse in the Mideast
Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
NATO's Eastern Exposure
Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
Uber Losing a High-Stakes Battle in China
Andrew Hawkins, The Verge
Brazil's Bigger Problems
Allison Fedirka, Geopolitical Futures
11 facts That Explain Brazil's Political Crisis
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
To Lie Is to Win: The Victory of the Post-Truth Politician
J. Freedland, Guardian
How the Israelis Captured a Nazi Mastermind
Andrew Nagorski, Daily Beast
The Demise of Hezbollah's Untraceable Ghost
Robin Wright, New Yorker
Audacious Armenia Challenges Moscow
Richard Giragosian, Moscow Times
Russia's Military: A Paper Tiger Roars?
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Sunday, May 15
Why Obama Can't Apologize for Hiroshima
Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg View
Obama Should Celebrate the Friendship the A-Bomb Produced
Jeff Jacoby, Globe
Could Different Borders Have Saved the Middle East?
Nick Danforth, New York Times
What Happened to Billions in U.S. Aid to Egypt?
Julian Pecquet, Al-Monitor
How Russia Allowed Its Radicals to Go and Fight in Syria
Maria Tsvetkova, Reuters
Is There a Hillary Doctrine?
Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
Euroskepticism's Empty Promise
Dalibor Rohac, Politico EU
Tory Brexiters Sounding Just Like Nigel Farage
Andrew Rawnsley, The Guardian
How Trump Would Weaken America
Joseph Nye, Project Syndicate
Mexico Goes on Offensive Against Donald Trump
Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
How Brazil's Left Destroyed Itself
Antonio Sampaio, Foreign Policy
Sweden's Rape Crisis Isn't What It Seems
Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail
How the U.S. Can Defeat Putin's Shadow War
Sean McFate, The Daily Beast
Is There a Rouhani Window for Iran's Radical Left?
Peyman Jafari, Jacobin
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