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NATO’s 36th Summit, held in Ankara this week, is an important meeting. For starters, Donald Trump, the U.S. President, has threatened to quit NATO numerous times, just as he has threatened to quit, or indeed quit, almost every alliance and treaty the United States is party to.
Erdogan as NATO’s linchpin
Trump has also let it be known that...
The neo‑nationalists’ focus on the supposed evils of globalization is a case of misdiagnosis. The discontents of the age of globalization are many and real, but globalization is the context, not the cause.
And just as a reversion to the fortress mentality of nationalism and ethnic autarchy is not the answer, the great hope held out for nativism is a curse, not a cure....
I came to Washington, D.C. as a foreign correspondent during the final months of the Nixon administration. I decided to immigrate and eventually became a U.S. citizen. Over the years, I have never lost my fascination with America’s past and continuing struggle to make this a “perfect union.”
From pride and reverence to bombast and pure ego
So it...
The question of whether Andy Burnham would make a better prime minister than Keir Starmer misses the point entirely. Britain’s political crisis runs far deeper than personalities, campaign skills or messaging strategies.
The UK has been fragmenting along lines of class, migration and state capacity notably more than other European countries of similar size. Even thoug...
Germans are eagerly engaging in a new national sport. They blame Friedrich Merz, the head of their federal government, for all of the country’s woes.
That impulse says less about Mr. Merz than about the political maturity of the Federal Republic.
Who drives the “it’s all Merz’s fault” narrative?
Without any question, Mr. Merz certainly h...