The U.S.’s embarrassing problems with something as basic as voter registration should serve as a wake-up call.

Will the 45th U.S. President live out his remaining years in a comfortable palace, surrounded by fawning courtiers who pledge obedience to him as their rightful leader?

An overly lengthy transition period can be highly destabilizing even in the U.S. — a nation that deems itself a mature democracy.

Will Germany learn to live up to the harder part of its global responsibilities?

U.S. political campaigns are one vast, sprawling political slush fund, designed to create a money-based web of post-election dependencies that is vast and largely impenetrable.