The diary of a desperate mother trying to put food on the kitchen table. By Fabiola Zerpa | July 18, 2016 Editor’s note: The looting, the blackouts, the mob lynchings, the hospitals with no supplies. Venezuela’s collapse into disarray is of a scale unseen in the Western Hemisphere in decades. In an effort to illustrate […]
Venezuela Isn’t Just a Failed State. It’s a Failure of the Left
By Tyler Cowen As Venezuela careens toward a further economic and political collapse, the blame game is heating up. In the U.S., Republicans are labeling the country “socialist,” using Venezuelan problems as a weapon against more left-leaning Democrats. Commentators on the left, in contrast, are arguing that Venezuela is more of a failed petro-state with bad […]
An ‘emergency’ power grab would only add to Trump’s problems
By Jennifer Rubin. Opinion writer President Trump cannot keep digging. He insisted on a wall the country didn’t want in a way the country objected to (by shutdown) when he could not control Congress. It didn’t take a political genius to predict Trump was going to lose. For the first time in his presidency, however, moving […]
President Trump is entering his terrible twos
By Dana Milbank He shuts down the government, maybe for “years.” He wants a wall that is “transparent,” then concrete, then slatted, then steel. One moment he’s leaving Syria, the next he isn’t. He’s watching too much TV and yelling at everyone. This is all to be expected. President Trump is entering his terrible twos. […]
How a president shapes the public character
By : Mitt Romney The Trump presidency made a deep descent in December. The departures of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, the appointment of senior persons of lesser experience, the abandonment of allies who fight beside us, and the president’s thoughtless claim that America has long been a […]
Trump’s order abandons 10,000 Kurds who fought ISIS
“This is something immoral, leaving your ally in the battle alone,” a Syrian Kurdish leader said. By David Ignatius The voice of Gen. Mazloum Abdi, the Kurdish commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces militia, is tight and controlled as he describes President’s Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from the country and leave America’s allies […]
Ignoring History, Trump Hands Russia Yet Another Win in Syria
There is always a reason why these giant pachyderms go rogue… if the tusk [is] growing into the flesh of the cheek or jaw, we must keep a guard day and night, for as the pain grows worse he becomes a killer, taking everything before him in wild stampedes. —Dallas Morning News, May 17, 1931 […]
Trump, ‘all alone’ in White House on Christmas Eve, ranting at his foes
Analysis by Stephen Collinson It’s Christmas in America: The President is home alone in the White House, ranting at his foes inside and outside; an administration lurching deeper into crisis; stock markets are in free fall and the government is paralyzed by a partial shutdown. Donald Trump is spending the festive season as he did […]
Why Kill Jamal Khashoggi?
The most charitable interpretation is that this was an abduction that went horribly wrong. By Karen Elliott House The case of the vanished and apparently murdered Saudi activist and writer Jamal Khashoggi is a tale with a victim and villains, but no heroes. Mr. Khashoggi, a longtime retainer of the Saudi royal family and more […]
Kavanaugh’s confirmation will delegitimize the Supreme Court
It’s time America woke up to the radical right that’s run the Court for years. By Matthew Yglesias Brett Kavanaugh’s likely confirmation as an associate justice of the Supreme Court has prompted not only exuberance and anger but also a kind of hazy worry in some corners that the circumstances of his ascension will call […]