The true king would reveal himself by solving an intractable problem — the Gordian knot. This knot was a nightmarish tangle of wrist-thick cornel bark that was twisted around an ox cart’s yoke and ...

Alexander the Great, short in patience, simply took his sword and sliced it in two! A Gordian Knot, slowly formed from the beginning of our democracy, was woven by an ever-present dark group ...

He advises them to cut their Northern Gordian knot by severing Schleswig from Denmark proper, as well as Holstein and Lauenburg, and by establishing four diets in the kingdom instead of one.

A Gordian knot is one that cannot be untied. It is usually so because the ends cannot be seen. In the modern age, this phrase is used to refer to any problem that is too complicated to solve.

The best explanation of President Trump’s aggressive strategy can be found in ancient Greece. Like Alexander the Great, Mr. Trump is cutting the Gordian knot. According to legend, in Phrygia (in what ...

But we should be mindful in doing so that the entire region is a historical Gordian Knot of poorly understood but ancient intertwined and competing threads -- one that may risk being cut by a ...

The Gordian knot wasn’t solved by patience or incremental fixes. It was solved by seeing the problem differently and taking decisive action. Financial leaders now face the same choice ...