Do Americans — who have a conflicted attitude toward government — realize the economic power that Abraham Lincoln wielded?

Does the United States have a stellar credit record — or is it a nation of deadbeats?

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

How does Europe exercise world power? Isn’t doing it away from military battlefields a truly modern form of global leadership?

Will the political class of India step up or will the Indians themselves need to reform government and rid it of corruption?