The Globalist

To save our democracies from rising levels of frustration, we need more citizen councils.

The post-Brexit EU may look ever more like the kind of EU many Britons had wanted it to be.

Ai Weiwei engages in the very same racial stereotyping about Germany that he complains, with very thin, if not contrived proof the Germans exhibited toward him.

The Russian President aims at staying in power forever. Who are his role models?

What are the economic forces and factors that determine the UK’s future in a Brexit environment?

Brexit is not so much about the UK’s relationship with the rest of Europe than it is about determining the nature and structure of the UK itself.

Dealing in alternate realities is a tricky business. As is often noted, predictions are hard, especially about the future.

The EU does not always need more members and deeper integration. Less could be more in the end.

How the United States ended up with one of the highest numbers of time zones for a single country.

No longer a prime meridian country, the former empire still reigns with a dozen time zones.