The Atlantic (May 16)
“The bad news is that Donald Trump is the most incompetent president in modern American history. The good news is that Donald Trump is the most incompetent president in modern American history.”
Tags: History, Incompetent, Trump, U.S.
The Week (May 3)
“The takeaway from Trump’s first 100 days in office isn’t a list of accomplishments or failures but rather a nugget of hard-won knowledge about the president himself: He is so comprehensively ignorant of policy and history, so thoroughly lacking in a core of settled beliefs or convictions, that the Oval Office might as well be unoccupied.”
Bloomberg (December 11)
“Even for a country with a modern history as tumultuous as South Korea, 2016 has been an eventful year. This was the year that a confluence of business failures, political scandal and economic malaise brought the strongest signs yet that the system that made South Korea a global industrial powerhouse may be about to change.”
Tags: 2016, Business failures, Economic malaise, Eventful, History, Political scandal, Powerhouse, South Korea, Tumultuous
LA Times (October 6)
“President Obama could be right in saying history may judge the ratification of the Paris Agreement as ‘a turning point for our planet.’ But if meaningful reductions in carbon emissions don’t follow, then history will judge this as the moment when the world acknowledged it had a problem, yet failed to fix it. The longer the world—and governments—dillydally, the more likely future generations will regard us as fools.”
Washington Post (June 1)
“British voters, who may be as weary as many Americans are of constantly being told that they cannot ‘turn back the clock’ and that history’s centralizing ratchet has clicked irreversibly too many times, might soon say otherwise.”
Tags: Brexit, Centralizing, History, Irreversibly, U.S., UK, Voters, Weary
New York Times (March 30)
“There’s nothing pretty about the details of Foxconn’s deal to take control of Sharp. And fixing Sharp, the loss-making Japanese electronics manufacturer, will be a tough slog for Foxconn.” But this transaction may just make history. It presents Exhibit A that Japan is capable of the sort of corporate reform critical to overhauling its economy.”
Tags: Corporate reform, Economy, Electronics, Foxconn, History, Japan, Loss-making, Manufacturer, Sharp
Washington Post (March 4)
Thursday, March 3 “will go down as the most embarrassing day in the history of U.S. presidential politics.” During the Detroit GOP debate, candidates hit new lows in public discourse with unrestrained vulgarity that made this “presidential politics’ worst day ever.”
Tags: Candidates, Detroit GOP debate, Embarrassing, History, March 3, Presidential politics, U.S., Vulgarity
Bloomberg (October 18)
“When Gen Nakatani arrives in Seoul on Tuesday he’ll be the first Japanese defense minister to visit South Korea in nearly five years, signaling that growing regional security risks are trumping the disputes over territory and history that have blighted relations between the countries.”
Tags: Defense minister, Disputes, History, Japan, Nakatani, Security risks, South Korea, Territory
Washington Post (October 9)
The “Ebola virus is a sobering reminder that we live in a world more connected and fluid than at any time in human history…. Viruses and bacteria do not stop at passport control.”
The Scotsman (September 18)
“The people of Scotland will go to the polls in record numbers today.” They will decide “the future of Scotland and that of the 307-year-old United Kingdom.” This will be “the most important vote in the country’s history.”
