Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan once said: “Democracy is like a train. We shall get out when we arrive at the station we want.” Erdogan may have arrived at his intended destination, but in a compelling NYT op-ed, Mustafa Akyol urges his fellow countrymen to get back onboard and to “follow the example of one Arab country that has managed to avoid political gridlock: Tunisia.”
America’s bastion of liberal ideology is under attack from the forces of capitalism. With a sense of inevitability, the Silicon Valley “peasants’ revolt” is underway.
With Venezuela reeling from unrest and fiscal failure, and Argentina courting economic disaster, a Brazilian change of course would be a dire blow to the Latin left.
A new poll founds that Americans want the Postal Service to stick around, even though few of them actually use it regularly. More importantly, Americans are on board with dramatic changes to make the service more efficient.
Even as the US tries to peacefully end the Syrian civil war through diplomatic negotiations, Iran is finding it more convenient to supply the Syrian regime with weapons, elite soldiers, and piles of cash.
As Ukranians react to the peace deal signed this morning, it’s time to step back for a look at how the West’s ignorance of geopolitics has allowed Putin to gain the upper hand in conflict after conflict.
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