The Globalist

It is high time for Europe to engage in nuanced analysis of the Brexit vote. Part of the protest was right on target. The EU should learn from it.

With mosques under surveillance, IS turns to soccer for recruitment

Examining the perfectly closed loops of circular Islamist thinking.

The 1888 Great Debate over US trade policy inspired literary luminaries like Walt Whitman and Mark Twain to take sides.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has been a steadfast advocate for constructiveness in the West Balkans.

How the 1888 elections decided the protectionist course of U.S. economic expansion for decades to come.

Trade flows in agricultural products and the high-stakes games of international sanctions.

Is Silicon Valley the 21st century American equivalent of the inferno/purgatory? Or of paradise?

Pakistan’s generals like to blame their country’s cycle of political violence on foreign forces. In reality, it is largely home-made.

Does Germany’s Chancellor really not understand the cynical ways in which Turkey’s President plays her? Is it naiveté – or appeasement?