Category: Opinion
Biden’s job approval has entered dangerous territory
By Sean Trende for RealClearPolitics In 1880, the Americans did something momentous: They all elected their delegations to Congress the same year. Before that, the elections had been a hodgepodge. For example, the first elections of 28th Congress, which apparently met between 1843 and 1845, was held in Missouri on August 1, 1842. But only…
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Afghanistan’s wrong lesson – POLITICO
Press play to listen to this article. Florian Bieber holds the Jean Monnet Chair on Europeanisation in Southeastern Europe at the University of Graz, Austria, and is the coordinator of the Balkan Policy Advisory Group in Europe. He tweets at @fbieber. Deport, deport, deport: When the Taliban entered Kabul, the Austrian Federal Minister of the…
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CNN’s Don Lemon awkwardly addresses Governor Andrew Cuomo’s scandal
On Tuesday, CNN anchor Don Lemon addressed New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s sexual harassment scandal right after speaking with the Democratic governor’s brother, his CNN colleague Chris Cuomo. And it was awkward. To say the least. Many viewers on social media noted that Chris said nothing about his brother’s scandal, which had made national news…
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How the United States fell in love with Europe – POLITICO
Press play to listen to this article. Bruno Maçães writes POLITICALGeopolitical Union column. The greatest threat to the West is not European autonomy, but European weakness. The concept of European strategic autonomy is increasingly presented as a danger to the West as a political community; the idea is that a Europe that does not depend…
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Americans rank last among 46 countries that trust the media
A new survey from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford shows that Americans rank last out of 46 countries in the level of trust they have in the media. “The United States ranks last in confidence in the media, with 29%, among 92,000 consumers of news surveyed in 46 countries,” Poynter.…
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