The Globalist

South Africa’s clean government activists have prevailed against the former president, but it will take time to undo his damage.

The Zuma era is finally over. What a mess he left behind.

A rapidly approaching emergency in Cape Town threatens to spill over.

Press freedom in South Korea is slipping and public perception of corruption is rising.

South Korea’s $1.4 trillion economy was about 52 times larger than North Korea’s in 2014.

China hopes to shift production from low-wage human labor to robots, as South Korea has done.

The U.S. consumes a much greater share of prescription painkillers than its global population share would suggest.

How does the U.S. CO2 output compare to its population share?

A prison-industrial complex by the numbers.

The share of global guns in the United States is at least ten times the country’s population share.