The Globalist

A former war hero practices fiscal rectitude at the Pentagon.

America, on the road to become like Europe’s social democracies, is losing its exceptionalism.

Can the D.C. mayor-in-waiting overcome the racial divide that persists in the U.S. capital city?

Reflections on the art of global power management.

Why is President Obama so permissive with regard to excesses of the U.S. intelligence apparatus?

Is the end of empire such a bad thing? Perhaps for the elites, but not for the population at large.

Imagining the America and the World that Martin Luther King could have built.

What does the shaky fate of the U.S. consumer electronics chain portend for the economic future of the United States?

Counting the ways in which Iran and the United States are alike.

Why respecting rights and operating accountably makes security agencies more effective.