The Indy Car Series event, held on August 23, 2026 in Washington, D.C. to celebrate the 250 th anniversary of the signing of the Declaratio...

In the 1990s, I asked the CEO of ATT whether there is not a conflict of interest in him being chairman of the board tasked with holding the ...

In the Gospels, Jesus is portrayed as an idealist, even other-worldly, from the standpoint of the political domain. To be sure, he knows how...

In his famous text,  Leviathan , Thomas Hobbes describes the state of nature as one of might, or raw force, being the decider of what is rig...

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 ...

In the United States, Christmas is the last official holiday of the calendar-year, and Thanksgiving is the penultimate holiday. New Year’s D...

Besides its humanitarian work, the UN can boast of providing a situs in which officials of national governments can talk to and with each ot...

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

As U.S. President Trump signed his “Big Beautiful Bill” into law on July 4, 2025, Elon Musk, shareholder and CEO of Tesla, announced that he...

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

One of the many advantages that democracy has over autocracy (i.e., dictatorship) is that the dispersion of political power among elected re...

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

The 2024 U.S. Presidential election warrants a post-partem analysis, not so much to affix blame, but primarily so the electorate might grasp...

Faced with the return of Donald Trump as U.S. president in early 2025, the European Parliament debated on November 13, 2024 how the E.U. sho...

On December 19, 2023, Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled that Don Trump, a former U.S. president, had engaged in insurrectionist activity as a m...

In the E.U., the state governments and federal institutions can ask the European Court of Justice (the ECJ) for an opinion on a legal matter...

The 14 th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution “bans anyone who took an oath to uphold the Constitution but who subsequently ‘engaged in insu...

Politics and religion intermeshed can be a nasty business. Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, witnessed every venue of his planned tou...

Ambition checked by ambition. The assumption that political ambition can be counted on is the key to the “checks and balances” feature of t...

On September 14, 2019, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was “giddy with excitement” after U.S. President Trump had communicated “the poss...