[I]ts greatest flaw lies in moving the power of decision in presidential elections from the people ... to the Electoral College, whose members represent the states.
[W]thout inflation and high gasoline prices ... Trump and his cabinet of brutally unqualified sycophants and the cowardly Republican Party would not have been punished so severely.
The Beijing summit did not produce a major agreement between the great powers on the region, but it firmly established that Middle Eastern crises are now deeply tied to the great-power dialogue.