I had trouble posting from home yesterday, so here are Charlie Stevenson’s news summaries for today and yesterday:
October 1
Happy New Year! [FY2020]
US News argues that the military have increasing dominance over DOD civilians. I share those concerns.
FP has a review of two new memoirs, by Samantha Power and Susan Rice.
Picking up on John Bolton’s sharp criticism of North Korea policy, John Gans notes the parallels with Al Haig, fired by Reagan.
September 30
Why did special envoy Volker resign? Politico has some background.
Will Trump actually block Chinese from Wall Street?
Double standard? Why does NYTimes seem to care more about hiding identity of a leaker than of a whistleblower who followed the law?
Is it that easy to hack US voting machines? The scary report.
How to mitigate the effects of tariffs? Sen. Cotton has another deviously clever idea.
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The Arab street is still sympathetic to the Palestinians, but it has little say. Restraint…
I hope they will also consider another dimension: decent v indecent. You know what I…
It is hard to see how four nuclear powers in the Middle East will serve…
Israel yesterday bombed Hezbollah headquarters in Dahiyeh, south of Beirut's center, and killed its leader,…
Netanyahu use the next six weeks to continue to do as much damage as he…
Vucic will take EU money and American political pressure on his opponents, but neither will…