Новости за 28.08.2018

Demetrios Karoutsos, RCPolicy
At what point does lobbying cross over into the realm of crony capitalism and rigging the system? That’s a question many tech companies and the U.S. Congress are asking amid concerns that the bidding process for the Department of Defense’s cloud computing project has been fixed in favor of Amazon.

Bjorn Lomborg, NY Post
When a “solution” to a problem causes more damage than the problem, policymaking has gone awry. That’s where we often find ourselves with global warming today.

Espinosa & Hidalgo, Project Syndicate
Scientists agree that global carbon dioxide emissions must reach a turning point in 2020 if we are to achieve carbon neutrality (emissions low enough to be safely absorbed by forests, soils, and other natural systems) by mid-century. But while nearly 50 countries have or may have reached their emissions peaks, progress must be accelerated.

Byron York, Examiner
There are people in Washington who hate each other but who, for public consumption, pretend not to hate each other. What was almost refreshing about the relationship of Sen. John McCain and President Trump was that there was no such pretending.

John Avlon, CNN
"Drain the swamp" was a popular chant at Trump rallies in 2016, ranking second only to the cries of "Lock Her Up" that still persist as a greatest hit at his presidential arena tours.

Brooke Singman, FOX News
An FBI intelligence analyst admitted to House committees last week that bureau officials were known to leak information to the press and then use the resulting articles to help obtain surveillance warrants, according to a source with knowledge of his testimony.

Charles Hurt, Washington Times
Citizen Paula Duncan is the very spine of a successful Republic.

Thomas Friedman, NYT
Your vote in the midterms matters, because Republicans in Congress won’t restrain the president’s excesses.

Bruce Riedel, Al-Monitor
As Iran and Saudi Arabia compete for influence in the Islamic world, Pakistan represents a crucial sphere of influence, but the country's new prime minister has been a critic of the Saudi-led war on Yemen.

Jon Anderson, The New Yorker
Suppressing an uprising, President Daniel Ortega borrows tactics from autocrats abroad.

Arthur Herman, National Review
The riots that night set a political pattern that Democrats are still following today.

Matt Ford, The New Republic
The Massachusetts senator has a big plan to clean up Washington, but the Supreme Court has proven hostile to anti-corruption laws.

Krishnadev Calamur, Atlantic
The president’s announcement that he was “terminating” a free-trade agreement means less than he said.

James Walker, The National Interest
China's economic attack on America caused U.S. voters to turn to Trump.

Michelle Goldberg, New York Times

Debra Saunders, LV Review-Journal

Rep. Steve Scalise, Washington Examiner

Bill Zeiser, RealClearPolitics

Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics

Roger Kimball, The Spectator

David Leonhardt, New York Times