An op-ed by David Ignatius in the July 18 edition of The Washington Post: “It’s not Syria. It’s us”. There is a reference to the Hungarian revolution of 1956.

In the same issue, an op-ed by Fareed Zakaria: “Can China change its economic course?”

In the July 18 edition of The Washington Times, a commentary by columnist Suzanne Fields: “The miserable man without a country”