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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican hero for austerity measures that stripped collective bargaining rights from most public unions, spent a final day campaigning before Tuesday's recall election that brought lots of outside interest and money to the state.

Figure this out, if you can: after the months-long Brexit campaign, perhaps the most bitter chapter of British politics in living memory, the country voted to leave the European Union in order restore the democratic control of the Westminster Parliament. Then, without a murmur of democratic dissent, David Cameron’s successor as prime minister, Theresa May, was appointed by a hereditary monarch

The Conservatives’ capture of the north points to a realignment in British politics. Will it last?

BRITAIN’S ELECTION on December 12th was the most unpredictable in years—yet in the end the result was crushingly one-sided. As we went to press the next morning, Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party was heading for a majority of well over 70, the largest Tory margin since the days of

There wasn’t one Republican presidential debate going on Thursday night in South Carolina, but rather two. And in that sense, the debate neatly and succinctly summarized this year’s unusual race.

The first debate was between the two unlikely front-runners, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. After months of dancing around each other—and in some cases essentially supporting each other—in