Concerning the legal environment of business, the lawyers who teach as full-time instructors in American business schools affirm that manag...

Joschka Fischer, a former foreign minister of the state of Germany, said the agreement under which 17 state governments accept more oversig...

In the U.S., states can get waivers from having to comply with regulations, depending on the particular law; federal legislation is not pas...

“Newt Gingrich is up, Herman Cain is out, and the attacks are getting sharper as the GOP primary campaign enters the final month.”[1] The f...

In November 2011, European leaders began to talk about amendments to the E.U. that would “change the fundamental structure of the union.”[1]...

The method being referred to in  A Dangerous Method  (2011) is psychoanalysis, as pioneered by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). The danger referr...

Political protocol can take some time to catch up to changed political realities. For over two hundred years, it has been assumed that U....

“The moment of truth has come.”[1] This was said by the head of state of the E.U.’s third largest state, Italy, in a televised address just ...

In the 2011 film, The Descendants , George Clooney plays a character who must wrestle with several trade-offs bearing on character itself. ...

I was drawn to the film Carnage by the actors—specifically, Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet, though Jody Foster and John Riley can certain...

The East African Community (EAC) is Africa’s “most advanced regional trade bloc,” according to the Wall Street Journal in 2011.[1] The EAC ...

“That the [ECB was being] forced [in 2011] to step into the power vacuum left by a fractious political class underscores the increasing cent...

In the March 2, 2010 issue of The New York Times , Roger Cohen illustrates how useful EU-US comparisons can be.[1] He is careful to compare...

As October 2011 was coming to an end, George Papandreou, prime minister of Greece, “stunned Europe by announcing a referendum” on the lates...

As a federal system, the E.U. can be expected to contain a certain amount of economic disparity. The state bond yields in October 2011, for...