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Yahoo NewsWhat Portland and Kenosha say about the return of political violence in America
As recent authoritarian transformations in other countries have shown, there is a route to power through encouraging politicized violence.
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The Battle of Portland: Trump's escalating tactics against protesters are backfiring in Oregon
A report from night 50 of the Black Lives Matter protests that have rocked Portland and focused national attention on the Trump administration’s efforts to suppress protests that sometimes carry a violent edge.
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Obama sparked a tidal wave of change in Cuba. Trump’s new policy misses the point.
Two years of Obama’s engagement did more to pry Cuba out of its shell than anything else. Engagement worked exactly because the Castro dictatorship gives no one their rights.
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Duterte snubs White House invite. What was Trump thinking?
Now it's the Philippines turn. In another spontaneous foreign policy initiative, Trump used a Saturday phone call to invite the country's controversial president, Rodrigo Duterte, for an official White House visit.
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Essay: Why Trump will be good for the arts
For the creative class, Trump’s victory feels like a refutation of the liberal worldview they cherish: tolerant, diverse, built on sharing and compassion.
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Fidel Castro’s quiet end
Fidel Castro is dead. Castro was believed dead in 1953, after he disappeared during his surprise attack on the Moncada Barracks during an early, failed attempt to overthrow Cuba’s government. Cuba’s President Raul Castro, left, receives the box containing the ashes of Cuba’s former President Fidel Castro at the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery, in Santiago de Cuba, Dec. 4, 2016.
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Fidel’s Pyrrhic victory: Standing up to the U.S. at a high price for Cubans
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro exhales cigar smoke during an interview at the presidential palace in Havana in 1985. Fidel Castro has died, reportedly at the age of 90, with his boots on, stubborn, independent, aloof to the last. The Cuban Revolution may have failed at almost everything it tried, creating a half-century of decline, isolation and deprivation, but in one way Fidel Castro triumphed.