Tim Kaine: Hillary's Wise Choice (Dov S. Zakheim, The National Interest)

Hillary Clinton’s choice of Tim Kaine as her running mate may not have reversed her overwhelming unpopularity with the American public. But it underscored the contrast between her professionalism and the rank amateurism that Donald Trump displayed throughout the Republican convention and its aftermath. Clinton could have pandered to the Democratic Left, much as Trump has pandered to the extremist Right. She didn’t. Instead, she chose a man whose public-spiritedness and essential decency is so widely recognized and appreciated that many of his Republican colleagues in the Senate were lining up to congratulate him.

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/tim-kaine-hillarys-wise-choice-17122

Erdogan's Turkey Is the Real Turkey (Dov S. Zakheim, The National Interest)

In the aftermath of the failed military coup against the government of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, many observers have been wondering whether the defeat of the plotters will allow the president to expand his already significant control of the country, or whether the coup, even if it failed, has weakened his authority. There is little about which to wonder. Erdogan has a golden opportunity to tighten his control over Turkey, and he is unlikely to let it slip by.

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/erdogans-turkey-the-real-turkey-17028

A Vote Against Trump Is Not a Vote For Hillary (Dov S. Zakheim, The National Interest)

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/vote-against-trump-not-vote-hillary-16446

Iran's New and Dangerous Moment (Dov S. Zakheim, The National Interest)

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/irans-new-dangerous-moment-14976