Reading Time: 4 minutes The White House’s blitz of activity means it largely controls the narrative and the Democrats can only react to its agenda
Author: Joseph Micallef
There is little that is new about fake news
Reading Time: 5 minutes Once upon a time, a news story wasn’t news until a legitimate news outlet carried it. Now, if it’s on somebody’s Twitter feed it’s a news story
Trump one week in: is there more here than meets the eye?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Focus more on what Trump is doing, rather than on what he is saying, to determine exactly where this administration is going
Can Donald Trump talk down the U.S. dollar?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Many proposed economic policies, such as a decrease in government regulation and lower taxes, are bullish for the dollar
Putin’s brazen bluffs obscure increasing weakness
Reading Time: 4 minutes Russia is banking that a new U.S. administration will give it a way out of the hole it has dug for itself
The battle for Mosul inches forward
Reading Time: 4 minutes So far, Islamic State forces have stopped short of using civilians as a buffer between its and the advancing Iraqi military
Is Obama sticking around to protect his legacy?
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the determined hands of the Trump administration, much of the legacy of the Obama presidency may end up on the cutting room floor
The legacy of the Arab Spring is chaos and civil war
Reading Time: 4 minutes MICALLEF: The political instability accompanying the Arab Spring has created spaces where jihadist groups can flourish
China ready to test Trump’s resolve
Reading Time: 4 minutes Beijing has a long history of provoking incoming U.S. administrations to see how they will respond to aggressive Chinese actions
How the left has ruined multiculturalism
Reading Time: 4 minutes Under the heavy hand of the left, multiculturalism, which was supposed to bind us, is driving us apart