The Globalist

What happens if there is no fair distribution of gains and losses? A Renaissance lens could have brought this risk into focus much sooner.

With mosques under surveillance, IS turns to soccer for recruitment

The 1888 Great Debate over US trade policy inspired literary luminaries like Walt Whitman and Mark Twain to take sides.

How the nineteenth-century battle between free trade and protectionism shaped the global economic order.

What is identity for children raised globally, by international couples?

Why it matters to stand up for justice and demand atonement.

South China Sea islands are arguably ground zero in any potential war between China and Vietnam.

A refugee’s desperate bid to be reunited with her husband and daughter.

Behzad Yaghmaian recalls the experience of a Sudanese refugee family trying to cross into Europe illegally to seek asylum.

Behzad Yaghmaian recounts the tale of Nur’s journey to Istanbul.