The Globalist

The financial crisis has split Spain into two: a Spain that works and one that doesn’t.

China will soon be under new leadership. But the real change in China is taking place further down the generational chain.

Would American democracy be better served by shorter and less costly elections?

How have the ideas of Ayn Rand shaped contemporary Republican thinking on economic and political issues?

If Reagan is the father of modern U.S. conservatism, Ayn Rand is certainly its mother.

Is UBS’s exit from fixed-income trading a harbinger that other self-correcting measures will take hold in the financial industry?

Many U.S. and UK analysts think Germany is destroying the euro. The Germans think they are saving it. Who’s right?

What is more likely to happen first: Greece will leave the eurozone, or Scotland will leave the UK?

How do the people of a small American city view China — as an opportunity or a threat?

Will the recent protests in Tehran give birth to an Iranian Spring?