The Globalist

The European Union’s Nobel Peace Prize doen’t ensure peace in the future.

Will the economic costs of secession keep Europe’s separatist movements in check?

Why does the idea persist that Europe’s Catholic nations have always been economic slow-growers?

Why do some economists persist in stereotyping Europe’s Catholic nations as laggards, when they practically invented what we today call globalization?

What were the motivations for Facebook’s owners and investment bank advisors taking the company public?

Will Putin’s third presidential term be one of growing political and economic risk?

Do the secessionist impulses that threaten to break apart troubled African countries make economic sense?

How is the technology of solar power transforming it into a 24-hour-a-day power source?

Has the world reached a point where all major nations are too troubled at home to engage meaningfully in foreign policy?

True or false: The U.S. and European welfare states are a whole lot closer in size than is commonly thought?