The Globalist

There’s an image makeover in progress for the First Lady in the Trump Administration.

Moderating the US president and keeping him from erratic isolation may fall to his children and especially his son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Reflections on the present-day challenges for the United States, the self-appointed beacon of “democracy.”

U.S. journalists may balk at the Trump White House calling them the opposition, but that’s their proper role.

It’s a lop-sided world when a Republican billionaire turned President cancels a corporatist trade deal eagerly pursued by a Democratic administration.

Is the new US President really trying to resolve the competitiveness challenge by relying on outdated 1960s style, Brazilian economic concepts?

In a curious role reversal, it was a Japanese Prime Minister who stole the march on Trump and his anti-globalism chants.

The domestic set-up in the US, with two dominant political parties, is not conducive to constructive engagement. It favors paralysis or overreach.

The inclination of establishment politicians to overpromise is the core cause of the rise of populism.

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