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 a republic, which is characterized by representative rather than direct democracy and includes checks on even the elected representatives...

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 ...

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Even though Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine was prompting E.U. officials to bolster the union’s defenses in 2025, U.S. President Trump’...

“State rights” was a common refrain by the eleven U.S. member states who sought to exit in 1861; the underlying fear was that the exclusive ...

Speaking after his meeting with U.S. President Trump in Alaska during the summer of 2025, Russia’s President Putin said that if no agreement...

One of the chief benefits of having an empire-scale union of states is the sway, or influence, abroad that comes with strength of numbers. D...

The children’s adage, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me,” ignores the fact that words can cause psychologi...

In March, 2025 after the U.S. had direct talks with Russia on ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the E.U. stepped up its game in helping U...

In analyzing a merger, incorporating the macro context is vital. For very large mergers, for instance, public policy concerns inevitably su...

Only months after Donald Trump became the federal president in the U.S., an idea, “once unthinkable,” was “gaining attention in European po...