‘Trump’s bad qualities make him good at handling the Middle East’

‘Too much idealism has arguably been our problem in the Middle East’

President Donald Trump has been “disastrous for America’s relationships with many of its allies,” says Richard Hanania. “Yet he has been successful in the area of the world that most befuddled previous presidents: the Middle East.” A “zero-sum worldview” in which “deals are possible” and “relationships between nations depend on the relationships between individual leaders” makes a “lot more sense” for countries that are “hostile toward America and best dealt with through force or the threat of it.”

‘A new generation of stars is overthrowing the old Hollywood system’

“There’s an old assumption within celebrity culture that, when you become famous, you ‘sign up’ to a set of rules,” says Priya Elan. But “younger celebriti