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,...

As the chief executive of the U.S. Government, the president is tasked with executing the law—the passage thereof involving both the Congres...

On December 6, 2024, the E.U. finally—meaning more than twenty years after negotiations had begun—reached a free-trade agreement with Argent...

On November 1, 2024, “All Saints Day” in Roman Catholic Christianity, the E.U. announced that a peaceful delegation of the elected represent...

With no party having gained sufficient seats in the upper house of the Italian legislature, analysts warned on February 25, 2013 of a “hu...

On August 21, 2011 in New Delhi, India, tens of thousands marched in support of Anna Hazare, then in the sixth day of his hunger strike in ...

It is odd that even after a bill becomes a law, it can be defunded, thereby effectively killing it even though it has not been voted down. ...

The means by which a bill becomes a law are sometimes referred to “how sausage gets made” because they are not suited for public display. ...

In an interview in 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump said he wondered why the issues leading to the U.S. Civil War “could not have been wor...

Fundamentally, a court differs from a legislature, so it would be strange were a state’s supreme court to take it upon itself to act as the...

The way the world works is not in itself reason enough to dismiss the possibility of an ideal being more fully realized, and to refuse to t...

Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. Government grabbed more and more power from the governments of the member-states. Even within th...

As the Republican Party assumed control of the U.S. Senate, and thus of Congress itself, since they would continue in the majority in the U....

In June, 2014, the “Capital Civilization Office” in the Chinese Government began a half-year campaign to “encourage Beijing’s 20 million re...

Buffeted with a whirlwind of criticism in the wake of revelations of widespread fraud in VA Hospital and outpatient clinic wait times, Pres...