The UN report, “Gaza Genocide” (A/80/492) states that “the prolonged unlawful occupation of the Palestinian territory” by the state of Israe...

I contend that in having both federal and state-level officials attending the G7 international meetings, Europe is over-represented even as ...

The governor of a large state, if speaking for the E.U., risks not only undercutting federal officials who can speak for the E.U., but also ...

After 25 years negotiating with Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, the E.U.’s Commission sought to secure passage of the massive trad...

An important implication of the saying, a fish rots from the head down , is that it is important that corrupt heads be swiftly punished so u...

Why has the E.U. been sidelined amid the military tensions in the Middle East? The answer lies with the E.U.’s federal system, rather than t...

At the Munich Security Conference in February, 2025, Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy bluntly asserted, “I really believe that the time has com...

One of the leitmotifs of the four Christian Gospels is the surprising value of peripheries even over people who are up front, whether politi...

Why do some countries have more inequality in terms of wealth or economic development, whether between big cities and urban areas, or just f...

Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Europe in May, 2024 “amid concerns in Europe over Chinese support for Russia’s war in Ukraine and Europ...

In interpreting exit polls released on May 26, 2019 on the E.U.’s Parliament election, The New York Times pointed to two issues, only o...

While the world continued to look on—like an impotent rich man who cannot afford Viagra—as a genocide was taking place in Syria (i.e., th...

The E.U. states of Greece and Italy were grabbing headlines during the first two weeks of November 2011, given the dramatic resignations of...

The First Amendment protects free speech in the U.S. even if it is as hurtful as signs at a Marine funeral proclaiming "Thank God for ...

It would be a cruel joke were an airline to keep the extendable corridor back as the plane’s front door is opened and passengers are pushed...

With Emmanuel Macron finishing first on the first-round of voting for the head of state in the E.U. state of France, the media declared ...

Can a political elite hold itself accountable? Left to its own devices, absent a virtuous citizenry, a political elite is able to exploit ...

Benoit Hamon, “riding to victory” from political obscurity on a proposal to “pay all adults a monthly basic income,” defeated the recent Pr...

In October of 2014, the prime minister of the E.U. state of Britain blatantly (and quite publically) refused to pay a “bill” that the E...

In negotiating free-trade deals with the U.S. and Japan, E.U. officials had to reckon with differing concerns of particular state intere...