For most of Angela Merkel’s 16 years as chancellor, the leading German philosophy on financial and budgetary matters was simple. So...

In the German federal elections this past September, the country’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) received only 20.5 percent of the...

Four days after the election of Donald Trump, an article  in the New York Times opened with the ominous statement “and then there was...

Since January, an estimated 710,000 migrants and refugees have entered the European Union. This number is about two and a half times the...

The United States has a long history of publicizing so-called “macho” men. Over the years, the prototypical macho American man has seen...

Since four score and seven years ago, political rhetoric has been both a political tool and a metric by which we assess our leaders. Word...

Sometimes, thinking about policy in the European Union (EU) is the same as thinking about German political strategy. The line between the...