The Globalist

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?

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

When it comes to economic growth, is the United States more like China or like Europe?

Is the euro crisis just a European crisis — or is it a global crisis in search of a global governance solution?

Why are Republicans having such a hard time coming to grips with the electoral defeat?

What is worse — going over the fiscal cliff or emulating Europe’s economic policymakers?

Has China become more of a factor in the United States’ domestic politics than in its foreign policy?

Can the inhuman act of a single person lay bare the neuralgia of an entire people?

How is Washington simultaneously pursuing democratization and a restoration of military rule in Egypt?