Drowned out by the noise of this week’s remarkable US election was a telling speech by European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker given hours after Donald Trump claimed victory. Speaking in Berlin about what Europe will look like in 2050, Juncker, who is a former prime minister of Luxembourg and one of the more outspoken EU officials you are likely to meet, admitted his prepared ...

There are only a few constitutional requirements for someone to be elected president — that they be 35 or over and a “natural-born” citizen of the United States, as well a resident in the country for at least 14 years — but there are a number of unwritten traditions that have historically shaped the office of the presidency. One of these ...

Healing The Divide Christos Makridis, PhD candidate in labor and public economics, Stanford University In the past few months, economic policy uncertainty has been higher than it has been in the country’s history, marginally surpassing the uncertainty associated with the Great Recession, September 11, 2001, and even the Great Depression. The United States faces a number of fundamental challenges: entitlement ...

Some of Germany’s leading foreign policy experts said that, after Donald Trump becomes US President, Berlin will be more exposed in an increasingly unstable world. Reacting to Trump’s election victory on Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel was swift to offer an olive branch to the man her foreign minister described as a “hate preacher.” Citing shared values of democracy, freedom and ...

Democrat Hillary Clinton has conceded the 2016 US White House race to Republican Donald Trump, offering to work with the president-elect who she said she hoped would be a successful leader for all Americans. Mrs Clinton, appearing at midday (local time) after a bruising election loss to the New York real estate magnate, urged supporters to keep an open mind ...

A prominent but divisive figure with shifting alliances, the election of the 81-year old retired general is seen by many as a clear victory for the pro-Iranian axis in the Middle East. One of the first congratulatory phone calls Aoun received after his election was from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani who said that Aoun has been elected at “a time ...

BY KALAHAN DENG It seemed the controversy over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email serverreached a standstill in July after FBI Director James Comey said she should not be prosecuted. But a letter Comey sent to Congress Oct. 28 has thrust Clinton’s questionable email setup back into the headlines, with just over a week to go until Election Day. ...

BY KALAHAN DENH Already, the treatment of Sunnis in areas liberated from the so-called Islamic State is laying the groundwork for more hatred, violence, and terror to come. “This is payback for the Speicher massacre,” a Shia soldier said to a Sunni as he stomped all over him and some other helpless Sunni prisoners, his colleagues hitting them with whatever ...

BY KALAHAN DENG Iceland’s anti-establishment Pirate Party—led by a “poetician” who worships Julian Assange—looks set to win the country’s national election. The currency would be Bitcoin. Edward Snowden would have a passport. Drugs would be legal, synth-pop plentiful, and the national leadership would have Julian Assange’s number on speed-dial, assuming his line hasn’t been disconnected by Ecuador. They’ve even got ...

BY KALAHAN DENG Hundreds of children from one of Europe’s most squalid and desperate refugee camps, ‘The Jungle’ in Calais, are being resettled in the U.K. But the appearance of a few who seem to be over 18 is fueling ugly headlines. How do you assess the age of someone with no passport, no birth certificate, and no identity papers ...