The Globalist

Walmart is the largest private employer in the United States. Why are none of its employees in a union?

Were candidates a hundred years ago more progressive on ending the influence of special interests than Mitt Romney and Barack Obama?

What is at stake if the U.S. and global economies lapse into a sustained depression?

If the classic film Casablanca were made today, it would be set in Dubai.

Does India have more in common with the chaos and confusion of modern Brazil than with command-and-control China?

Why would USAID not get behind an effort to turn Afghan farmers from poppy to cotton?

Is the decline of the United States as an economic superpower inevitable? Or can it avoid the mistakes of past superpowers?

Is there any satisfactory method for assessing the true cost of a human life?

Has the EU found a way to get consumers to bear more of the environmental costs of flying?

How did Silvio Berlusconi’s tenure as Italian prime minister resemble some of the more ruthless and business-savvy popes in history?