The Globalist

Russia’s and Turkey’s lack of a solid economic performance is what motivates their two leaders’ steady resorting to domestic oppression.

Corruption and debt darken the global outlook for democracy.

Democracies are only as healthy as their institutions: A conversation with Gurcharan Das.

The U.S.’s embarrassing problems with something as basic as voter registration should serve as a wake-up call.

Will the 45th U.S. President live out his remaining years in a comfortable palace, surrounded by fawning courtiers who pledge obedience to him as their rightful leader?

Is this really the time to “humor” the outgoing U.S. President by allowing him slowly to come to terms with reality — like a little boy?

To explain how Trump almost pulled off his reelection requires a deep dive into the less familiar buildings blocks of American culture.

Never has it occurred that one man, in four short years, would nearly shatter everything that the US stood for.

When faced with his own Rubicon moment, will Trump provoke a crisis or will he stand down?

Julius Caesar’s and Donald Trump’s outsized ambition and lack of scruples turned them into dangers to republican values and institutions. But how were they different?