The Globalist

Media circuses surrounding unqualified presidential candidates are the U.S. political system’s new export.

White supremacist Dylann Roof extends a national tradition of ritual slaying.

What is the big idea (or set of ideas) the West is battling about?

Why the United States has lost the mantle of moral and geopolitical arbiter.

A two-term presidency spent on running away from Black America.

Why on earth did the US invade Vietnam half a century ago? Have the lessons finally been learned?

Reflections on the militarization of the U.S. police.

The Democratic Party’s likely 2016 presidential nominee faces many challenges.

The American presidency has a long history of appropriating foreign policy powers from Congress.

Prospects for U.S. jobs and wage gains are dimming.