A conflict of interest is the privileging of the interest of a part, by that part, over a conflicting broader interest, such as the public g...

Secession is a nasty business. Both Britain and South Carolina learned that lesson. Whereas the American member-state failed to secede from ...

Having state governments at the front in putting together a federal budget is problematic for several reasons. Those governments can easily ...

Spurred on by the myriad inventions from the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the related consumer demand for the conveniences, th...

E.U. President Von der Leyen’s 2026 State of the Union address can be characterized as a bricolage of concerns “all over the map,” with prop...

In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, one trend in the American retail sector involved the creation of a status that had not...

Both the U.S. and E.U. mandate that their respective states be republics (i.e., representative democracies), and thus assuming an autocratic...

From August 29 through September 1, 2026, the G20 met in North Carolina in the U.S.; the E.U. was represented by one of its states, Ireland,...

The relationship between human and artificial intelligence is a tantalizing but formidable investigative topic requiring much more intellige...

On 5 August, 2026, President Von der Leyen of the E.U. “announced that €1.4 billion in profits from immobilised Russian assets [held in the ...

Even though the default absolutist notion of national sovereignty has consistently undercut global efforts to combat climate change and rid ...

The European Civil Protection Pool (ECPP) was established in 2013 to provide emergency response personnel and equipment to combat natural an...

It is perhaps just human nature to assume that the attitude towards ethical (and unethical) business is uniform from culture to culture arou...

During the summer of 2026, the E.U. found itself at one point trying to make the unnecessarily arduous and utterly artificial distinction be...

While one Georgia was secure as a member-state in the U.S., another Georgia was finding itself being frozen out of not only accession talks ...

In the midst of the ongoing military invasion by Russia in Ukraine, countries in Eastern Europe could hardly afford to dwell on the past and...

On 7 July, 2026, speaking at NATO’s Summit Defense Industry Forum in Turkey, Ukrainian President Zelensky made the case that Ukraine should ...

On 17 June, 2026, the E.U. formally adopted a federal law, the Return Regulation, that allows states to set up “return hubs” outside of the ...

Whereas when the U.S. responds to natural disasters abroad, the resources of all 50 states are combined in a federal-level response, the E.U...

On 16 June, 2026, the European Parliament rejected the European Council’s proposed budget for the E.U. not only because of the proposal’s €3...