Stephen Holmes sees a critical difference between otherwise similar political reactions to immigration and data centers.

Stephen Holmes worries that, like in many resource-rich states, the technology could make citizens redundant.

Stephen Holmes sees a new proposed rule politicizing research grants as part and parcel of a broader war on the future.

Stephen Holmes thinks the deepest fissure opening up in Donald Trump’s political base runs through the US electrical grid.

Stephen Holmes sees the “settlement”—a new “Anti-Weaponization Fund”—not as corruption but as a public performance of impunity.

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YouTube video by American Academy in Berlin

Stephen Holmes points out that the process of democratic renewal in Hungary has only just begun.

Stephen Holmes warns that the system Viktor Orbán has created means that losing an election may not mean relinquishing power.

Stephen Holmes says that while regime decapitation won't work in Iran, the US increasingly resembles a country where it could.

Stephen Holmes thinks Donald Trump will draw the wrong lesson from countries' reluctance to help clear the Strait of Hormuz.

Stephen Holmes shows how Iran is exploiting its adversaries’ specific vulnerability – their reputation for stability.

Stephen Holmes explains why the US pressed ahead with the war on Iran despite warnings of depleted weapons stores.

Stephen Holmes says that America needs Iran to be weak enough to accede to its demands yet coherent enough to implement them.

Stephen Holmes homes in on the sugar-coated racism in the US secretary of state’s speech at the Munich Security Conference.

Stephen Holmes attributes the urge for destruction animating Donald Trump's supporters to the fury of frustrated nostalgia.

Stephen Holmes argues that a man who has always lived for the moment can’t be expected to behave otherwise as US president.

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