Even if there are additional political and economic motivations at work, the decision serves as a guide for Southeast Asia, especially given that human rights and healthy democracy are closely linked.
This correlation also works in the opposite direction in countries such as China, where Democrats hold a majority of seats. Raja Krishnamoorthi (Figure) and Kathy Kastle (Florida) The lawmakers wrote that Xi Jinping’s authoritarian regime has led to setbacks when it comes to women’s equality. His policies have “pushed women out of political decision-making, removed them from the workforce, and returned them to subordinate roles in all aspects of modern life,” they wrote, listing all the setbacks.
In Northern Europe, immigrants are being targeted. Aren’t they always? Lee Hochsteder Reporting from Copenhagen, the epicenter of Denmark’s bulldozer-driven assimilation, Lee describes how this “small, tidy, high-tax” country has forcibly repopulated, depopulated, and even demolished struggling neighborhoods where more than half the residents are from “non-Western” countries.
Lee offers a useful analogy: “If the statistics say there are too many high school dropouts or shoplifting convictions, imagine taking a wrecking ball to Chinatown.” But what would be outrageous in the United States is completely uncontroversial in Denmark, a sign of how anti-immigrant Europe has become.
For a century, Colombia has been forced to grow bananas under threats worse than white imperialist bulldozers. A Florida court recently ruled against the “banana giant” Chiquita for funding paramilitary groups. Eduardo Porter Reflecting on the violent exploitation of Latin America that continues today, he said, “I hope that global capitalism has overcome its killer instincts by now.”
Finally, university students Andrea Vazquez Guillen A moving tribute to Venezuela’s last tropical glacier. When she left the country to study in the US in 2020, La Corona was already dying. And now it’s gone.
And like many reports of a single location, the story is actually global: “Half of the world’s glaciers are expected to disappear by the end of this century,” warns Vázquez Guillén.
Chaser: Another destination is Max BootAnd it’s a bleak outlook: He is convinced that Israel will not take responsibility for governing Gaza or providing humanitarian assistance.
Post-debate dropout controversy
Sadly, people don’t often hop around until they’re in trouble back home. For Americans, that meant the post-presidential debate drama. Our columnists spent the weekend pondering what President Biden should do after his disastrous performance. Editorial Committee He expects Biden to do the same, and while he has not explicitly said he should withdraw from the race, he has suggested he would leave a legacy similar to that of Cincinnatus if he decided to pull out.
EJ Dionne If Biden decides to continue campaigning, “he owes it to his supporters to lay out a clear strategy for disrupting the campaign,” they wrote. [the debate’s] “Damage” starts off with more stops, featuring plenty of energetic speeches and television interviews, including an unfriendly environment.
David von Drehle Biden is not promising himself the same kind of glory as a Roman statesman if he steps down as president; he is only promising the same glory as President Johnson. David says we misunderstand Lyndon Johnson’s decision not to run for reelection in 1968, one of his most popular decisions, even if it was ultimately drowned out by the turmoil of that year. Biden is in a much better position to take on his ancestor’s “noble job,” David writes.
So let’s say Biden steps down gracefully, what happens next? Things only get a little more complicated. Karen Tumulty It offers a sobering, eyebrow-raising take on how they might work out.
Chaser: Democrats fear chaotic convention Matt Bye “Trump should be more afraid of their collapse.”
meanwhile, Jen Rubin The threat of an authoritarian presidency from Donald Trump’s administration was heightened by the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday to grant sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution for many acts committed while in office, the justices wrote. No immunity exists for unofficial acts.
Naturally, this causes a great deal of confusion, but what is clear is that, as Trump wishes, the January 6th trial will be postponed until after the election.
Two of our conservative columnists wrote that they were pleased with the non-ideological opinions the court has issued in other cases. George Will He points to a 6-3 ruling in a social media case that included three conservatives on both sides; and Jason Wyrick We commend Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the judicial independence she demonstrated in joining five conservative justices in her 6-3 decision to dismiss certain counts against defendants in the Capitol storming.
“Enough with the lazy trope that the Supreme Court is controlled by a conservative ‘bloc’ of six justices,” George wrote.
Monday’s exoneration decision, in case you were wondering, was also decided purely along ideological lines – 6-3.
Chaser: Returning to Friday’s court adventurism: Ruth Marcus I agree with Justice Elena Kagan that overturning the decades-old Chevron doctrine would be “arrogance squared.”
- David Ignatius We get inside President Biden’s head and theorize about why he refused to accept the truth that was in plain sight.
- Jen Rubin It reminds us that no matter how extreme a Supreme Court justice may seem, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will always trump the Supreme Court justice.
It’s goodbye. It’s a haiku. It’s… “goodbye.”
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