Bratislava summit was meant to fast-track the European Union’s introspection and it seems to have served its purpose. Waking up from its complacency after Brexit, the 27 leaders’ meeting looked into ways to prevent the disintegration and dislocation that the bloc is facing. The EU is grappling with the greatest ever threat to its existence. And minus Britain, it is ...

  One of the hardest things for a foreigner to understand in U.S. politics, especially its rather extreme 2016 version, is the willingness of voters to support candidates they deemed unacceptable earlier in the campaign. Because the U.S. presidential election narrows to a two-candidate race, the calculus of voters and political operatives shifts in spectacular ways. Plenty of this was ...

  The financial crisis and the bailouts that followed unleashed a wave of populist anger, targeting almost everyone with power, from Wall Street to government officials to “elites” more generally. Except in one sector: technology. Why has tech been spared the torches and pitchforks? Because everybody loves a winner. As the economy began to grow again in 2009, it had ...