Obama’s High-Stakes Asian Trip

The recent summit in South Korea between Trump and Xi succeeded in averting major escalation in a tariffs war.

[T]he Republican Party is now a coalition of religious conservatives, the social and economic right, and libertarian oligarchs. For their part, the Democrats have become a broad “tent” uniting liberals, moderates, and socialists.

[T]heirs is not a clash between East and West, nor between democracy and authoritarianism, but between two versions of American destiny.