End of the Line: Understanding Israeli Politics

End of the Line: Understanding Israeli Politics

Israel’s inability to assemble a government is not easy to understand. America has been in deadlock since the 1970s, but that’s hardly surprising since (a) it’s not a democracy but a dysfunctional eighteenth-century republic lingering on well past its sell-by date; and (b) power is fragmented among a handful of political institutions that must align…

NATO at 70: Sclerotic & Bureaucratic Zombie should be Pensioned Off

NATO at 70: Sclerotic & Bureaucratic Zombie should be Pensioned Off

Seventy is normally considered a ripe old age at which people should be enjoying retirement. The NATO alliance, which meets to celebrate its anniversary in London, should have been pensioned off long ago. The French president, who told the Economist in early November that NATO was “brain dead”, seems determined to jolt the alliance and its…