Text Message Opinions from Indonesia: Obama Visit to Jakarta

[T]he Supreme Court may have just put another cog into to the president’s infernal machine.

[T]he crisis of soft power risks accelerating the decline of [U.S.] power in the world, activating and speeding up centrifugal dynamics that might otherwise have taken years to fully manifest.

Trump and his advisers have repeatedly insisted that the U.S. president can pretty much do whatever he wants and that the pesky Congress need only be consulted rarely.

Many Americans are accusing Trump of setting the wrong priorities.