Financial Times (November 1)
“If America is lucky,” Biden will be elected and “the country will breathe a sign of relief, literally. Whether or not one agrees with the president’s policies, his divisiveness and vitriol are among the reasons that researchers have found correlations between Mr Trump’s spell in power and things like rising anxiety levels, cardiovascular problems and even preterm pregnancies (especially among Latinas) in the US.
Tags: Anxiety, Biden, Cardiovascular problems, Divisiveness, Elected, Lucky, Preterm pregnancies, Relief, Trump, U.S., Vitriol
San Francisco Chronicle (October 4)
“As President Trump’s fellow humans, we can only wish him and his wife the quick and painless recovery…. As citizens of the country he was elected to lead, we can only see his illness… early Friday, as the apotheosis of his mismanagement of the crisis, which has helped put more than 200,000 Americans beyond the reach of any well-wishes.”
Tags: Apotheosis, Crisis, Elected, Illness, Mismanagement, Painless, Recovery, Trump
Wall Street Journal (July 11)
“The bitterness of Brexit pervades all aspects of British life and politics. It has divided friends and families, produced a Conservative cabinet with more leaks than an old sieve, split the diplomats of the U.S. and the U.K., and exposed a rift between Britain’s elected politicians and its unelected civil servants.”
Tags: Bitterness, Brexit, Cabinet, Conservative, Diplomats, Divides, Elected, Families, Friends, Life, Politicians, Politics, Rift, Split, U.S., UK, Unelected
Washington Post (September 8)
“Washington feels like the capital of an occupied country,” filled with “institutional and administrative chaos; our military chain of command is compromised; people around the elected president feel impelled to act above the law and remove papers from his desk. The mechanisms meant to protect the state from an incompetent or dictatorial president are not being used because people in power no longer believe in them, or are afraid to use them. Washington feels like the capital of a state where the legal order has collapsed.”
Tags: Administrative, Chain of command, Chaos, Collapsed, Dictatorial, Elected, Incompetent, Institutional, Law, Legal order, Military, Occupied, Power, President, Protect, Washington
BBC (May 10)
“Mahathir Mohamad is on course to become the world’s oldest elected leader at 92, after a shock victory in Malaysia’s bitterly fought election” over his former protégé Najib Razak also “ousted the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, which has been in power since independence in 1957.”
Tags: BN coalition, Elected, Election, Independence, Leader, Mahathir, Malaysia, Najib Razak, Oldest, Shock victory
LA Times (March 13)
“Myanmar has lost its luster for U.S. investors, who say the military has relinquished little power and Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government has failed to loosen the grip that army generals and their cronies retain over key industries.”
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Cronies, Elected, Generals, Government, Key industries, Luster, Military, Myanmar, U.S. investors
The New York Times (July 4)
“Despite his failings, and there were plenty, President Mohamed Morsi was Egypt’s first democratically elected leader, and his overthrow by the military on Wednesday was unquestionably a coup. It would be tragic if Egyptians allowed the 2011 revolution that overthrew the dictator Hosni Mubarak to end with this rejection of democracy.”
Tags: Coup, Democracy, Dictator, Egypt, Elected, Leader, Military, Mohamed Morsi, Overthrow, Revolution