[aggregation-styles] Haaretz The human rights of "people of all ethnic groups" living in China's westernmost region have been "effectively safeguarded." This was the bold assertion in a July 2020 Joint Statement backed by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates , Bahrain and the Sultanate of Oman, among others. Yet, according...

[aggregation-styles] Pacific Legal Foundation In an August 16 Wall Street Journal op-ed, President Donald Trump and Ben Carson, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, pledged to protect America’s suburbs against federal regulations and “ultra-liberal” attempts to “abolish single-family zoning.” But the reality is that it’s not the...

[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Under the Trump administration, the United States has withdrawn from so many international agreements, broken with so many precedents and angered so many allies that it can be difficult to cut through all the noise. But one particular approach could irreparably damage America’s superpower status:...

[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription The Democratic National Convention began with a mosaic of Americans reciting the preamble to the U.S. Constitution — a striking display of ethnic, racial and gender diversity. But more important, this time around, the Democrats have taken care to celebrate the kind of ideological diversity...

[aggregation-styles] The Wall Street Journal Subscription To be fair in critiquing certain public events you have to be like a judge in the Olympics and factor in degree of difficulty. No one had ever done a Zoom convention before, so no one knew how to do it. Should there be...

[aggregation-styles] The Wall Street Journal Subscription Millions of Californians have lost power in recent days amid a brutal heat wave, and state regulators warn of more outages in the days and perhaps years to come. Welcome to California’s green new normal, a harbinger of a fossil-free world. “These blackouts, which...

[aggregation-styles] Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Joe Biden took his time selecting a running mate, which seemed prudent. But he came up with Sen. Kamala Harris of California, which seems anticlimactic. And, worse than that, weak. Let’s set aside what sort of vice president and president Ms. Harris might make — the campaign...

[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription PEACE BREAKTHROUGHS in the Mideast are as rare as snowstorms in the Sahara, so the deal establishing normal relations between Israel and an erstwhile antagonist, the United Arab Emirates, is a watershed. If it proves durable, the accord, announced Thursday by President Trump, could lay...