Brexit
Make the U.S.-UK Special Relationship Great Again
The Special Relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom is built on a common history of defending freedom, extensive economic ties, and close security collaboration—and it is flourishing....
The UK’s Trade Rush Needs More Economic Strategy
Three years and dozens of trade agreements later, post-Brexit Britain shows no signs of hitting the brakes on its trade roll. In the quest to quickly put European Union (EU)...
UK Labour Party’s Proposed Immigration Policies Will Not Ease Border Issues
The United Kingdom is often ridiculed in the American press, and especially The New York Times, for its Rwanda asylum policy—the plan to process asylum seekers in the African country...
Thatcher 2.0? Liz Truss Becomes Britain’s New Prime Minister
Liz Truss has won the Conservative party leadership contest to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister of the United Kingdom. Johnson, who was elected in a landslide in 2019, stepped...
The Truss Challenge: Can a Besieged Britain Be Saved?
Liz Truss has just become Britain’s prime minister after she was elected leader of the Conservative Party yesterday. In the end, it was not close. Truss’ people have known that they...
Could Boris Johnson Have Been a Second Churchill?
British prime minister Boris Johnson’s resignation from office nearly two months ago marked the end to what was undoubtedly a tumultuous premiership, which finally collapsed after bearing the brunt of...
Will U.S.-China Competition Threaten EU Integration?
Seventy years since the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the institutional predecessor to the European Union (EU), outside and internal pressure raises the possibility that the...
Is Liz Truss Ready to Defuse Northern Ireland?
As the campaign to win the leadership of the British Conservative Party moves on, momentum is building behind Liz Truss. Consistently ahead in Conservative membership polls and regularly racking up...
How Boris Johnson Lost His Way
It would be hard in our age, but a truly neutral and detached biography of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, one of the most instinctive politicians of our age wrecked...
History Will Be Kinder to Boris Johnson
Britain’s politics is in a chaotic state. The prime minister, Boris Johnson, has undergone months of negative headlines since the beginning of the year, including a protracted investigation into parties...
Brexit to Exit: Boris Johnson Resigns as British Prime Minister
Embattled British prime minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation on Thursday, but said that he would continue to serve in his post until his party selects a new leader. “In...
The Case for Scottish Independence Is Weaker Than Ever
Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and first minister of the devolved government of Scotland, will be on tour in Washington, DC this week. Ostensibly, the...