The Globalist

With Canada and Mexico in the bag, Europe and the Pacific are the next places for Trump to take his trade show.

Globalists are patriots who have a worldview that is not limited to the political boundaries of one state.

The Fed’s current interest rate increases are to tamp down the possibly very dangerous effects of fiscal recklessness during a time of a booming U.S. economy.

Presidents Donald Trump and Hassan Rouhani risk fueling a conflict that could escalate out of hand.

Trump’s “deal of the century” for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may well put an end to any prospect of a two-state solution.

Financial engineering has paid much better dividends for corporations than actual engineering. For the health especially of the U.S. economy, this needs to be reversed.

It can feel very rewarding emotionally to blame Mexicans (and other foreigners) for one’s economic plight. It is far less satisfying to yell at robots.

The Trump trade deal with Mexico is, in a smaller way for now, another of those rare Nixon in China moments. It has the potential to alter the arc of contemporary history.

Can Republicans’ efforts to tilt U.S. democracy toward feudalism be stopped?

How it has taken a political novice in the White House only a year and a half to hollow out the centuries-old system of the U.S. separation of powers.