The Globalist

A reflection on the strategic consequences of accidental American political inversions.

How the Founding Fathers’ original intent regarding the Electoral College over time was turned on its very head.

Obama’s Syria policy failed because it did not anticipate provoking Iranian and Russian interventions.

As Americans must regain their respect for one another, how far should Democrats go to work with Republicans now?

As 2017 begins, a meditation on reining in vitriol and reviving Americans’ trust in one another.

To date, not a single top banker has been put on trial, let alone sent to prison, for the frauds perpetrated by the institutions they lead.

The reemergence of US’s erstwhile counterpart from the bipolar world order is an uncomfortable reminder that the presumed age of American hegemony is history.

The U.S. government under Trump may be on the verge of returning to the old policy of transaction-based support of autocratic regimes in the Middle East.

Will the tangled finances of vastly wealthy leaders of the US administration become a possible cause for corruption concerns?

Trump is of two minds on the whether he really wants to pursue sound economic policies or follow his instincts as a real estate developer.