Before the election, Joe Biden was probably inclined to morph into a modern-day Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Can he still?
A Hard Reckoning for the Democrats: Race, Class and Joe Biden’s Election
That Democrats only defeated Donald Trump by so narrow a margin suggests that they need to re-think their political strategy big time.
Quo Vadis, Argentina?
Why is Argentina in such a sorry state, economically, politically and socially?
The Rise and Fall of Diego Maradona: A True Symbol of Argentina
Why Maradona’s life and death has reverberated throughout the world.
South Carolina and Georgia: A Contemporary Tale of Two Southern States
“Nothin’ could be finer” than to see Georgia flip yet again.
US: How to Avoid Another 2020 Election
The U.S.’s embarrassing problems with something as basic as voter registration should serve as a wake-up call.
Donald Trump: Dreaming of King James II’s Court in Exile?
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?
Putin and the Slow-Burn US Civil War
An overly lengthy transition period can be highly destabilizing even in the U.S. — a nation that deems itself a mature democracy.
Merkel´s Bismarck Moment 2020/21
Will Germany learn to live up to the harder part of its global responsibilities?
US: Systematically Hollowing Out Democracy
U.S. political campaigns are one vast, sprawling political slush fund, designed to create a money-based web of post-election dependencies that is vast and largely impenetrable.
























