After Last Night
A Coup in Facetime

President Erdoğan will celebrate his deliverance from last night’s coup as a triumph of “democracy”. We need not necessarily join the celebration.

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Turkish Coup Live Blog [CLOSED]

From Friday evening into early Saturday morning, WRM and staff shared their thoughts and provided context as news was breaking.

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After Brexit
What to Make of May’s Cabinet

Lenin once observed that in some decades nothing happens, and in some weeks, decades happen. That is the position in which Brexit Britain finds itself today.

Europe Divided
EU Split on South China Sea

It isn’t just the dithering of the United States that emboldens Beijing—Europe’s lack of resolve matters too.

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The Arab-Israeli Roller Coaster
The Next Arab-Israeli Peace Process

Nothing is inevitable and nothing is impossible when it comes to the Arab-Israeli situation, but certain things are very, very unlikely.

Brexit and Beyond
Obama Bluffs Again

The President’s threat to put the UK “at the back of the queue” for future trade deals rings hollow. Are red lines red anymore?

China Up China Down
Growth Report Shows Xi Flinching on Reform

So far, every time a clear choice has come between suffering the pain of reform and flinching, Beijing has flinched.

To Frack or Not to Frack
What Brexit Means for British Shale Ambitions

Can Theresa May do what David Cameron couldn’t, and kickstart UK shale production?

Blue Model Blues
Puerto Rico Crisis: Coming Soon to the Mainland

The problems that forced Puerto Rico belly-up are not confined to the island.

Siloviki Shakedown
The FSB Goes After an American Company

Foreigners are clearly no longer exempt from the depredations of the Russian state.

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