The Globalist

Why don’t Americans let themselves be spurred to stimulate their competitive juices when they look at China?

Can optimism be a substitute for doing really hard work? Or is it just a very transparent excuse for a cop-out on climate change?

What is the real challenge President Obama and the American people must urgently resolve?

Does it even make sense to hold federal elections in the United States? After all, they never provide any real resolution.

Is the United States’ anti-regulation stance undermining its global power position?

Despite all the talk about the Republican Party in need of splitting into two camps, aren’t the Democrats a more realistic target?

Is the best political game plan available to U.S. Republicans to be refuseniks?

How does the world’s largest economy perform on the three most important tasks to create a better global economy?

Is the U.S. becoming fundamentally incapable of agreeing on the most basic issues of fairness and decency?

Will 2016 finally bring the arrival of a woman in the Oval Office? How about somebody other than Hillary Clinton?