Ask Americans to close their eyes and imagine the future, and they probably won’t picture Britain. That’s the land of yesterday: castles, warm beer, an actual king. But a new paper argues that events on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean — specifically Britain’s post-Brexit struggles — offer a…
Writing a new Constitution strikes many Americans as a transgressive idea. Our Constitution is the oldest in the world, and it has come to seem immutable. The last really substantive change was a 1971 amendment lowering the voting age to 18. Instead of updating a text written more than 200 years…