The Globalist

Though billionaire females are greatly outnumbered by billionaire men, their combined wealth is still staggering.

Sri Lanka is often overlooked among the South Asian nations. Here are eight reasons it shouldn’t be.

When it came to women working, the United States once led. Now it lags.

Americans have traded jobs in manufacturing for jobs in the service sector.

North Koreans aren’t the robots they are often portrayed as in Western newspapers and magazines.

Women left the workforce in droves after the last U.S. recession. So far, they haven’t come back.

A selection of our favorite Globalist Quizzes from 2014.

Akumaa Mama Zimbi helps widows in Ghana preserve their land and their rights.

Realism needs to prevail in Kiev, but the prospects aren’t that dim.

Hinko Sernc has been practicing Slovenian folk music since before the Great Depression.