cronyism

Left critics blame capitalism for what cronyism does. Right critics blame immigrants for what criminals do. The logic is the same — and it’s wrong in both cases.   Political debate has a remarkable capacity to produce mirror-image errors. Thinkers on opposite ends of the spectrum, convinced they have nothing in common with their opponents, […]

The European Union’s three top jobs were assigned prior to the vote of the European Council. It happened at a meeting of the leaders of Germany and France and the three traditional factions of the European Parliament: the European People’s Party, the Social Democrats and the so-called liberals (mainly French President Emmanuel Macron’s party). This small, select […]