U.S. Perplexity about Mideast Trends

[I]f China can lead by example in helping to maintain or even reshape the international order, it will succeed in filling the void left by the United States.

Melania Trump is using her self-created image as an independent first lady to serve her husband's cause.

Trump is devising a building program for Washington with the express intention of immortalizing his reign.

[T]his wretched president has trampled on, chewed up and spat out pieces of sovereignty, not only of Mexico, but also of our sister countries in Latin America.

[The Trump era] was marked as much by policies that endangered vulnerable populations as by political bravado.

Trump's actions revealed willingness to privilege raw national interests over collective stability and legal norms.

[T]he Justice Department ... has exposed the corruption and decay within the elite circles that run the world and monopolize its wealth.