Angela Merkel has dominated the German political conversation for 16 years; now that she is stepping down, German politics faces more uncertainty than it has seen for most of the 21st century.  Germany...

On December 4, Vanderbilt announced that Daniel Diermeier, the Provost of the University of Chicago, will become the new Chancellor in July 2020. The Provost has an extensive background in political science,...

The decisions a chancellor has to make were never the easy ones. As Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos told me, “if everyone agreed, the decisions wouldn’t get to me.” Nevertheless, I wondered...