The Globalist

Democracies are only as healthy as their institutions: A conversation with Gurcharan Das.

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.

During the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714), Britain was as divided along partisan cultural lines as the United States is today. That history offers hope to Americans.

When faced with his own Rubicon moment, will Trump provoke a crisis or will he stand down?

Julius Caesar’s and Donald Trump’s outsized ambition and lack of scruples turned them into dangers to republican values and institutions. But how were they different?

In their ruthless pursuit of power and self-aggrandizement, both Caesar and Trump run roughshod over laws and norms.

Why Donald Trump resembles Julius Caesar more than does Obama or practically any other figure in recent history.

Under Trump, the United States — despite 250 years of self-government — may get dangerously close to how Europe’s last dictator has operated in Belarus.

We live in an age where apps wars between major nations have geo-technological fallout.