Crunch Point: A US Energy Giant Files for Bankruptcy – and an Industry Shudders

[B]y producing a result that will limit the authority of the leader of the superpower ... this system has demonstrated that it is working again.

U.S. commentators said the result [of the midterms] had 'dramatically reshaped the balance of power in Washington."

Party identity is never a shield, and populist rhetoric, however strong its power to mobilize, does not last if promises go unfulfilled.

There was a massive disconnect between what Trump was telling Americans on their television screens and what they were experiencing in their everyday lives.

The new breed of Democrats is bad news for Israel.

Average voters do not primarily cast ballots for abstract strategic outcomes or distant conflicts; they vote to keep the lights on and the rent paid.

[I]ts greatest flaw lies in moving the power of decision in presidential elections from the people ... to the Electoral College, whose members represent the states.