China's changing leadership game: Rule maker or shaker?

China's potential world leadership elevates a different 'co-relationship of forces' than the United States. Though military and economic conditions can carry an egg-chicken (causal-effect) relationship, the United States made the military the egg component of its leadership equation, China the economic. Yet, the more China ascends that ladder, the more...

A US midterm message that resonates across the Atlantic

One of the major political messages of the US midterm elections has been that rural voters dominate the cities. While the Democrats made enough gains in urban areas to take control of the House of Representatives, Republicans were able to expand their majority in the Senate, where each state gets...