
Michael O’Shea
Newly minted Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been saying all the right things. His immediate maneuvers on DEI and…
“Orbán should have been born in a big country like Germany,” a Hungarian acquaintance once told me, in typical East…
Rejection of incumbent parties has been a global theme in a year in which more voters than ever have cast…
The fortunes of Mexico and Donald J. Trump are inextricably linked. When I visited Mexico City in the summer of…
In her political ads in the leadup to last week’s EU parliamentary elections, European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen bizarrely…
Upon crossing the Danube by car into Bratislava’s central business district, one of the most conspicuous sights is political graffiti…
When Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition conducted its election campaign last year, it promoted the slogan of “Smiling Poland,”…
The new government of Poland ran an election campaign touting the “rule of law” and antidotes to “democratic backsliding.” It…
Circumstances are dire in Poland under the rule of the conservative Law & Justice (PiS) party, if you’re to believe…