Trump Tower May Be a Gaudy Excess, but It Is Not the Berghof on Stilts

Regardless of the era, emperors never like oligarchs who aspire to oversee them; oligarchs do not tolerate those who do not meet their demands.

So the world needs to brace itself for more confusion and unpredictability in U.S. trade policy.

[T]here is only one word to describe this first visit by the new German government leader with the U.S. president: depressing. In every respect.

[T]his is an act of self-destruction that will damage ... a superpower that has brought together the world's best minds.