An American-Egyptian couple who had been held in Egyptian prison were released recently: Last weekend, Egyptian-American aid worker Aya Hijazi, who had become an international symbol of Sisi’s harsh crackdown on aid groups, was cleared of child-abuse and human-trafficking charges … Continue reading →
The NY Times writes: What is playing out, said Robert Litwak of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, who tracks this potentially deadly interplay, is “the Cuban missile crisis in slow motion.” But the slow-motion part appears to be … Continue reading →
…but no tests, despite widespread apprehension that a nuclear test would mark the big 105th birthday celebration in North Korea. That’s—interesting. Some of the missiles appeared to be new types for North Korea: Analysts were working to identify all the … Continue reading →
The first sentence of this WaPo article by John Pomfret caught my attention: Something interesting is happening in China and perhaps President Trump deserves some credit. If someone writing in the WaPo who isn’t a known conservative gives Trump any … Continue reading →
…is that he’s turned into a centrist (for example, see this). But it’s hard to see how he could turn into one, when he always was a mish-mash of competing statements on many subjects. After all, it wasn’t just an … Continue reading →
…is that he’s pretty good at firing people whose performance he finds wanting. So, is Bannon in disfavor and possibly on the way out? I haven’t a clue. But it wouldn’t break my heart if it were to happen.
Continue reading →After the Syrian gas attack, President Trump had a choice: do nothing or do something. It’s a choice all presidents face, because sooner or later they will be tested—usually sooner, and not just once but many times and in many … Continue reading →
Every scandal that comes down the pike is given the “gate” suffix these days. But this one really deserves it, because it involves evidence of the Obama administration spying on political rivals and then leaking information obtained in that effort: … Continue reading →
District Judge Derrick Watson of Hawaii has been in the news quite a bit lately. You may recall that he was one of several judges who issued orders in separate but similar cases to block Trump’s revised EO regarding travel … Continue reading →
We all know the superficial answer to the question of why Trump threatened the Republican members of Congress known as the Freedom Caucus: because they thwarted him in the passage of the Obamacare reform bill (Ryancare, Trumpcare, GOPcare, whatever you … Continue reading →
In his column today in the NY Post, Michael Goodwin discusses some contradictory communications from Trump about the failed health care bill. Goodwin also mentions that calls for bipartisanship are doomed (agreed), and suggests that what Trump really needs to … Continue reading →
Of course they do. When a president tries to go against many years of local policies that have successfully defied the federal government—with some of those years involving the cooperation of the federal government in that defiance—it’s not going to … Continue reading →