In the United States and Europe, elections held and elections to come are ensuring the global political balance remains in flux.
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Historical cycles
Studying history means looking at life in century-long, not decade-long stretches, putting Steve Bannon-like alarmism on the fringe.
Ill-winds blowing
What's left of the EU's good name may take a further beating with the right rising and harbinger elections looming in Holland and France.
America first — at what cost?
Donald Trump's door-slamming nationalism is likely to provoke hardcore global repercussions, some of which the U.S. may not find particularly enjoyable.
A terrible year
Little about 2016 was encouraging. What's worse, its successor is destined to be tainted with the same problems.
Misreading the signs
The election of Donald Trump heralds a major shift, but its true shape and form still remains difficult to decipher.
The great divide
Lost in the Trump-Clinton fistfight is what the election of a woman president might mean to the world.
On walls and bridges
The West faces a critical choice, whether to put up barriers or keep interchange open and vibrant.
Days of future past
Giambattista Vico insisted history was cyclical, and lessons from recent European and American history appear to prove his point.
Little Englanders
With Brexit dust settling, only one thing is absolutely clear: nothing is in fact settled.
Right now
Rightist movements are beginning to find a home on the center stage of global politics.
To have and to have not
Seeing Chinese youth with Lamborghinis in Canada doesn't minimize a malaise seemingly without end.