The Globalist

Under Xi Jinping, will China opt for a “new totalitarianism,” the current “hard authoritarianism,” turn back to a sort of “soft authoritarianism” or move toward a “semi-democracy”?

Technology might help countries like India with government services, but it’s no silver bullet for the business of governance.

Passionate, self-forgetting work is the secret of happiness as well as of making a life.

The Las Vegas massacre has exposed that the idea of the existence of an American “society” is increasingly becoming pure fiction.

Plastics have been both a gift and a curse from an environmental standpoint

Is a world of approximately equal country incomes really possible to envisage any time soon?

Reviving the autonomy deal that foundered in Spain’s constitutional court back in 2010 would find the support of the majority of Spaniards, including the Catalans.

Trump rendering the Iran deal null and void will irreparably undermine America’s global, moral and political leadership.

Far from dominant, Saudi Arabia’s future in the Middle East is that of a second fiddle state.

How tall is the tallest national population in the world?