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Commentary: The top three global winners and losers in a Trump presidency
The world still has to wait for Donald Trump to flesh out the details of his foreign policy. Based on comments he’s made so far, Russia and NATO are likely losers in the Trump era: Russia because of the U.S. president-elect’s praise for President Vladimir Putin, and NATO because Trump thinks “free riders” are forcing the United States to pay more than its share to maintain the alliance.
Commentary: For Trump, it’s time to put statesmanship over showmanship
People live by stories. In our age, these stories are both fashioned by them through social media and for them by the mainstream media. Facebook and Twitter provide them with galaxies of real and virtual characters; other outlets deliver emotional narratives where stories are central, the facts peripheral.
Commentary: What Trump should do about anti-Muslim hate crimes
In the five days after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, the Southern Poverty Law Center recorded more than 400 incidents of “hateful harassment and intimidation” of minorities. The center, which monitors hate speech nationwide, drew on news accounts, direct reports and social media postings to find that many incidents “involved direct references to the Trump campaign and its slogans.”
Commentary: Could Trump save U.S. Mideast policy? Or just make it worse?
As the U.S. election results trickled in in the early hours of Nov. 9, Syrian government forces began yet another assault on Aleppo – with humanitarian workers and medical centers again in the line of fire.
Commentary: Putin will pay a high price for Trump’s friendship
Successful politicians usually enjoy their fair share of luck along the way. With the election of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin received the luckiest break of all. Instead of continued isolation, the Russian president will get yet another reset, with several long-term goals – a recognized zone of influence, non-interference in domestic affairs, an equal relationship with the United States – within his grasp.
Commentary: Trust the People! Why I’m optimistic about Trump.
I’m a Donald Trump optimist. Like the many who don’t support him, I am alarmed that he won. But I don't believe he will be as bad as the worst fears. It’s a very modest definition of optimism, but I think it’s the best liberals can come up with. The worst fears are widespread, serious, and may yet prove to be well founded. Still, my main reason for “optimism” is America’s tradition of liberty, its ineradicable pluralism – and (to sound a populist note) the American people.
Commentary: For Trump, filling 4,000 government jobs will be easier than you think
You’ve seen the stories – President-elect Donald Trump was shocked to learn he needs to hire over 4,000 political appointees by January 20, and that people in Washington may refuse to work in a Trump administration, or that Trump, as a newcomer to politics, may not know enough people to get down to business. Many of the same news sources which said Trump would never win are now exaggerating the few hours’ delay of a transition memo, or the switch from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to Vice P
Podcast: The Kremlin had a plan - Donald Trump winning wasn't part of it
During the 70-year reign of the Soviet Communist Party, the rest of the world played a game: Kremlinology.
Commentary: What Americans can learn from Britain’s vote for Brexit
Forty-eight hours before Donald Trump was declared winner of the U.S. presidential election, it was, as the great Yogi Berra quipped, “déjà vu all over again.”
Commentary: How Trump’s win boosts the Putin myth in Russia
Russia’s meddling in the U.S. presidential campaign was unprecedented in American history. Whether or not Moscow’s intervention helped Republican Donald Trump win the White House remains unclear. Nevertheless, Trump’s victory – and the Kremlin’s enthusiasm for it – offers proof that the post-World War Two era is over and that millions of U.S. voters support a broader international retreat from global integration.
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