Politics

The age of asymmetry – the weak have learned how to make the strong bleed

Politics John Sipher - April 30, 2026.

In a January 2026 interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, U.S. Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller offered a blunt description of world politics: “We live in...

Shifting alliances leave old friends in the dust

Politics Ferry Biedermann - April 30, 2026.

Washington’s ‘epic fury’ at its European allies has flared up again after a short lull, with Donald Trump threatening to pull US troops out of...

Milei's Trump-style showdown with the media

Politics TA | AP Insight - April 27, 2026.

The president blocked accredited reporters from entering the government's headquarters. He took to social media, in all caps, to insult the country’s news media as “filthy...

What is the price of Trump attacking a popular pontiff?

Politics Adekeye Adebajo - April 25, 2026.

It seems that, for the first time in living memory, God and the Devil are represented on Earth by two Americans. In fact, the acrimonious spat...

America is destroying the greatest diplomatic success in its own history

Politics Joschka Fischer - April 24, 2026.

What will Europe be like without a US military and political presence? Europeans had better start preparing themselves for this eventuality, because there is no...

American Jews in the crossfire

Politics Steven Simon - April 22, 2026.

Jewish history includes three episodes of flourishing in exile: the Babylonian diaspora’s great academies; the centuries-long experiment in Moorish and then Christian Spain; and the...

Hormuz and Taiwan – China is waiting for the American response

Politics Todd G. Buchholz - April 20, 2026.

Most schoolchildren learn that the Earth is roughly 25,000 miles around (40,000 kilometers). They do not learn that the global economy depends on just 100...

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