Politics & Government

Esattamente sessant’anni fa, all’indomani della prima consultazione politica dopo la nascita della Repubblica federale, l’FDP entrava a far parte del governo di Konrad Adenauer. Poco tempo addietro era stato eletto a primo Capo dello Stato…

Angela Merkel è visibilmente indispettita; dopo la battuta d’arresto della sua CDU in Turingia e nella Saar, i media tedeschi le hanno rimproverato di aver condotto una campagna elettorale troppo in sordina, sfumando al limite…

With the notable exceptions of Woodrow Wilson’s second term and Franklin Roosevelt’s third and fourth, all modern American presidents have been elected primarily to deal with domestic problems. The adage attributed to former House Speaker…

To misquote Douglas MacArthur, ‘Old institutions don’t die, they just fade away.’ Sadly in international relations most organizations that have outlived their usefulness continue to solider on, saved only by bureaucratic inertia and the…

My sister in West Africa asked if I could help her purchase a video game subscription for her son’s birthday by using her credit card. The game company could detect that she was using a computer in Africa and wouldn’t process an American…