The lawyers who sit on Bolivia's highest constitutional court have their futures cut out for them should this whole being-powerful-judges thing not work out. Perhaps they could star in the next spin-off of "Better Call Saul," or chase ambulances somewhere, because their legal reasoning is as creative as their ethics. Published December 15, 2019
President Trump may have lived the majority of his 73 years in New York City, yet he remains wildly unpopular in the nation's most populous city. In the 2016 presidential election, Mr. Trump took only 10% of the vote in Manhattan against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's 86%. Even in his native Queens, the boisterous billionaire managed only 22 % of the vote. Published December 8, 2019
In late November, owner Michael R. Bloomberg, a former New York mayor, announced that he was running for the Democratic nomination for president, and the company's editor, John Micklethwait, subsequently wrote in a memo to staff that Bloomberg News would not only refrain from investigating its owner, but also all of his Democratic opponents. Published December 3, 2019
Is Zhao Lijian, as his Twitter handle says, the "Deputy for Director General in the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China" -- or is he just the latest candidate to enter the race for the Democratic presidential nomination? Published December 1, 2019
'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" is not just the name of the English journalist Toby Young's memoir. It's also an apt description of Chinese foreign policy under President Xi Jinping. Published November 17, 2019
There are a lot of formerly powerful people who must rue the day that Ronan Farrow abandoned his career as an also-ran opinion journalist and decided to do it His Way. Over the past two years, Mr. Farrow has become one of the most hard-charging and effective investigative journalists in America. Published November 10, 2019
The late Jeffrey Epstein -- no relation! -- was, in the words of ABC News's Amy Robach, "the most prolific pedophile this country has ever known." A visibly angry Ms. Robach made the comment in a private conversation earlier this year on the ABC News set Published November 5, 2019
The so-called battle for Hong Kong is still raging. Over the weekend, the capitalist entrepot witnessed its 22nd straight week of protests against Beijing's heavy hand. Published November 3, 2019
American luxury goods purveyors, tech giants, universities, auto manufacturers, and -- perhaps most infamously these days -- sports leagues, are increasingly beholden to the Chinese market. Published October 30, 2019
Mick Jagger and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden are the same age. Both are 76 years old. Published October 20, 2019
You have to admire the chutzpah of a sports league that includes 29 American teams and one Canadian club but calls its final playoff round the "World Series." Published October 13, 2019
Mark Cuban, the wildly successful entrepreneur, charming host of CNBC's "Shark Tank," and owner of the Dallas Mavericks is no shrinking violet. Mr. Cuban has an opinion on, well, everything. College? He's against it. NBA officiating? It stinks. President Donald Trump? He's awful. Published October 9, 2019
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden and his son Hunter may have been -- say it with me -- "exonerated!" for their activities in Ukraine, but Mr. Biden has not escaped damage. Indeed, the Ukraine imbroglio will likely prove fatal in a presidential race in which Mr. Biden was once firmly ensconced as the front-runner. Published October 6, 2019
It has been a year since the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul. Mr. Khashoggi wore many professional hats throughout his career, one of which was as a freelance online blogger for Washington's other newspaper -- I believe it's called the "Post?" Published October 1, 2019
There are many reasons to opt for taking Amtrak over flying or driving to your destination: the high costs, the surly service, and, above all, the frisson of excitement that comes from not knowing when -- heck, even what day -- you may arrive. Published September 29, 2019
To many, the term "refugee camp" connotes impermanence. But at this massive series of refugee camps in Bangladesh's southeast corner, where some one million displaced Rohingya people from just over the border in Myanmar are now living, people are digging in for the long haul. Published September 22, 2019
It was March 2018 and Sen. Chris Murphy, Connecticut Democrat, was deeply disturbed. President Trump had just announced that John R. Bolton would serve as his third appointed national security adviser and Mr. Murphy, a thoroughgoing dove, was alarmed. Published September 12, 2019
With John Bolton's ousting as national security adviser, President Donald Trump has an opportunity to appoint somebody who actually agrees with him. Published September 10, 2019
American ideals often clash with the harsh realities of realpolitik. Saudi Arabia is a brutal suppressor of political dissent, religious minorities, freedom of speech and critical journalists — yet judged by Washington to be an important strategic partner on a number of matters, energy supplies chiefly. Egypt under President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who took power in a coup overthrowing a democratically elected president, has reverted to a dictatorship. But the Egyptian leader is valued in Washington for fighting and killing Islamists. Published September 8, 2019
Both countries are known for their futuristic cityscapes and technological innovation, but if there was ever a case in which William Faulkner's adage that "the past isn't dead; it isn't even past" holds true, it is Japan and South Korea. Published August 29, 2019
