What Britain’s seismic election tells us about 2020
Washington PostJonah BaderLabour, Conservatives, Tories, Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, trade, populism, Jeremy Corbyn, United Kingdom, Democrats, Republicans
Liberty and law are under attack worldwide. Consider the impeachment crisis in that context.
Washington PostJonah BaderIndia, illiberal democracy, Democracy, freedom, Islam, Israel, Netanyahu, Viktor Orban, Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar, Rohingya, Donald Trump, impeachment, William Barr
The GOP is now the party of state planning and crony capitalism
It’s hard to be an optimist about America right now
While we’re all focused on impeachment, Trump is upending U.S. foreign policy
Washington PostJonah BaderDonald Trump, foreign policy, South Korea, North Korea, Kim Jong Un, Japan, military, Middle East, Mohammed bin Salman, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey, Syria, NATO, Emmanuel Macron, human rights, Israel, Terrorism, liberal international order
The one that got away
In defense of Mark Zuckerberg
Washington PostJonah BaderElizabeth Warren, Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, politics, free speech, Ukraine, technology
The Middle East is still fertile ground for terror groups
Washington PostJonah BaderGeorge W. Bush, The Post-American World, Middle East, Arab Spring, freedom, Democracy, ISIS, Tunisia, Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump
Trump’s Syria actions are the result of a knowledge-free foreign policy
Washington PostJonah BaderSyria, Donald Trump, Kurds, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Bashar al-Assad, Vladimir Putin, Middle East, North Korea, Kim Jong Un, Iran, Saudi Arabia, foreign policy
Why I now support the impeachment inquiry
Washington PostJonah Baderimpeachment, Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine, Constitution, Founders, James Madison, Supreme Court, Richard Nixon, Weimar Republic, Democracy
China’s grand parades might mask its weakness
Trump’s misbehavior fits a global trend
Washington PostJonah BaderDonald Trump, Democracy, illiberal democracy, Republican Party, Newt Gingrich, Narendra Modi, Boris Johnson, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Viktor Orban, Rodrigo Duterte, authoritarianism, Ukraine, Russia
The central mistake of Trump’s Iran policy
Trump’s foreign policy is in shambles, for now
Washington PostJonah BaderDonald Trump, John Bolton, foreign policy, Iran deal, Iran, sanctions, Barack Obama, dollar, North Korea, Kim Jong Un, Taliban, Afghanistan
The end of one of the world’s most successful political parties
Washington PostJonah BaderUnited Kingdom, Boris Johnson, Conservatives, Tories, Labour, Republicans, Democrats, Brexit, protectionism, Immigration