State capture is a growing threat. Reversing it is hard
BANK REGULATORS are seldom celebrities. But Ahsan Mansur, the governor of Bangladesh’s central bank, is an exception. Since h...
China debates whether Trump is a revolutionary, or just rude
LOGICALLY, CHINESE communists should be good at spotting revolutionaries. In reality, officials in Beijing are as clueless as...
Donald Trump is affecting politics everywhere
EACH TIME Slawomir Mentzen speaks, the crowds seem to get larger. In a matter of weeks the 38-year-old far-right firebrand ha...
Europe will have to zip its lip over China’s abuses
IN THESE VERTIGINOUS times, America’s allies are taking a new look at their relations with China. In recent years, politician...
The right way to fight nativists
EIGHT DECADES after the event, Janis Cecins cannot know whether the Soviet train guard who transformed his family’s destiny w...
Donald Trump shoots his own global mouthpiece
MANY HAVE tried to stifle the Voice of America (VOA) in the eight decades since its hurried birth as a wartime broadcaster in...
Donald Trump v the spies of Five Eyes
ON MARCH 2ND Tulsi Gabbard, America’s director of national intelligence, accused Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, of ...
Trump v the spies of Five Eyes
ON MARCH 2ND Tulsi Gabbard, America’s director of national intelligence, accused Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, of ...
Could Europe replace Starlink if America pulls the plug?
IN HIS FIRST few months, President Donald Trump has shredded the transatlantic alliance and damaged the trust of America’s al...
Trump’s whims are overriding the national interest
WHEN ENVOYS of President Donald Trump travel the world making promises, demands and threats, do they speak for America’s nati...