The Globalist

What steps can be taken to slow the world’s population growth without engaging in “population control”?

What will it take for international meetings such as the recent Rio+20 summit to achieve real positive results for the environment?

Was the UN’s Rio+20 Earth Summit another lost opportunity for policymakers to do something productive about the global environment?

Why does a seemingly arcane intra-bureaucratic spat over alternative fuels in the United States matter to a global audience?

Has the United States sacrificed its founding and traditional values in its conduct of foreign policy?

How did Democrats and Republicans both become the parties of war and the purveyors of an interventionist foreign policy?

How are the Democratic and Republican parties both complicit in turning the United States into a warfare/welfare state?

Has the United States lost the set of civic values that made it exceptional among nations?

Is the leveling of world military spending in 2011 the start of a trend — or a temporary lull?

Is austerity the only way to ensure that development is globally sustainable?