While the 2026 World Cup was underway in North America, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling, which is to say, a judgment rationally ...

The stature that comes with occupying (and even having occupied) public office, whether elected or appointed and especially if high office, ...

The rule of law is absolutely essential to a representative democracy being able to endure even as strong personalities in public office may...

Both in the E.U. and U.S., the member-states are semi-sovereign, and are even guaranteed all residual sovereignty that is not in any of the ...

Should the UN’s General Assembly and Security Council be located in New York City? Both New York and the Union in which New York is a member...

In a struggle between wealth and ethics, practically speaking the former tends overwhelmingly to win hands down, even if the form of governm...

I contend that the genocide in Gaza being committed by the Israeli government can also be termed a holocaust. This is actually not much of a...

Besides using social pressure and anger to purge words that a student or faculty member deems unacceptable, the word police have found that ...

Even as the Israeli military was shooting innocent, starving people waiting for food in Gaza, Massachusetts police were overreacting to a pr...

The separation of powers that characterizes governments in the United States assumes that each branch will act to further its own interests,...

Humanity still has not come to a consensus on what are entailed specifically within the rubric of human rights. Even in terms of those speci...

A U.S. Senator being thrown to the ground and handcuffed rather than escorted out of the building because he asked a difficult question for ...

When a company’s management decides to take a partisan position publicly on a political issue, especially one that is contentious, decreased...

A landslide electoral victory in representative democracy is typically limited to the criterion of the extent of the vote-spread between can...

Adam Smith theorized that price competition on products and labor would allow the self-interests of the buyers and sellers to result in unin...

In the midst of the intensification of the very polarized and thus divisive U.S. presidential campaign “season” (i.e., year) during its last...

If America can be said to have violent cultures, relatively speaking and especially in countries such as Honduras but also in some U.S. stat...

Two years after the government of Texas in the U.S. began transferring migrants to other states and to Washington D.C., the government of Hu...

There is an expression in politics referring to how legislation is made; it is likened to the making of sausage, the public display of which...

A news story only goes so far; only so much “digging” is possible against a pressing deadline. Moreover, we humans are not particularly good...