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Wednesday 12/October/2016 15:03 PM

Mayday in the UK

Conservative Brexiteers – who campaigned for the United Kingdom to vote to leave the European Union – continue to blather about building an open,...

Wednesday 12/October/2016 14:45 PM

The US election and the world

The Republican Party’s candidate for the American presidency, Donald Trump, is clearly not the GOP establishment’s first choice. Even this close to the...

Tuesday 11/October/2016 17:32 PM

The political logic of hard Brexit

Little more than three months after the United Kingdom’s decision in June to leave the European Union, Brexit politics are careening out of control in the...

Tuesday 11/October/2016 17:20 PM

Trump vanquished his rivals for the GOP's soul

There are two possible explanations for Donald Trump's debate performance Sunday night. The first is that it was one of Trump's regular releases of...

Tuesday 11/October/2016 17:10 PM

Economics Nobel for examining reality

This year’s economics Nobel Prize has gone to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström, for their work on the theory of contracts. The research here is deep...

Tuesday 11/October/2016 15:21 PM

Solving the 'Balkanisation' of Libya

It is time to finally accept what an abject failure the UN and EU has presided over in its misguided attempts to solve the disastrous situations in Libya....

Monday 10/October/2016 17:51 PM

The UK's dangerous new identity politics

Democracy, under siege in many parts of the world, received a serious blow in its homeland last week. In a series of jaw-dropping pronouncements, members of...

Monday 10/October/2016 17:26 PM

Putting the populist revolt in its place

In many Western democracies, this is a year of revolt against elites. The success of the Brexit campaign in Britain, Donald Trump’s unexpected capture of...