The Globalist

The weakened office of the President raises very serious questions about the ability of the United States to adapt to modern times.

Did former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel really utter his most famous words — "Never let a serious crisis go to waste" — in vain?

How were corporate managers gripped by fear long before, and wholly independent of, 9/11?

Does Woody Allen now see New York as heaven, as hell or as earth — or all three combined?

Will U.S. students take a page from their Chilean brethren and protest the high cost of college education?

Why has China’s government done little to stop the country’s smoking epidemic?

How is an increasingly dilapidated San Francisco symbolic of the challenges facing the United States?

Why is blame-shifting far from the ideal response for a world that finds itself in considerable trouble?

What is really stifling a vigorous, solutions- and future-oriented American democracy?

Does the U.S. credit downgrade mark the end of the country’s economic dominance?