India’s Water Crisis

How is India’s inability to provide clean drinking water affecting its economy and people?

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India’s National ID: Entitlement to a Number

Will a new national ID actually fix any of India’s problems?

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India: Combating Poverty With Technology?

Can tech-based solutions, like a new national identity card system, really fix India’s poverty challenges?

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Gaza: Scenes of Human Tenacity

Young people hold on to the future, even as conflict surrounds them.

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Electricity: Who’s the Cleanest of Them All?

Quiz: Brazil, Canada, Germany or US: Which major country performs best when using renewable sources?

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America’s 50-Year War on Poverty

Key figures on poverty in the United States, five decades after President Johnson launched his “war.”

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Japan Must Own Up to Past Actions

Diaoyu Islands: China’s posture reflects Japan’s failure to show contrition for the past.

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Guide to 2014: Global Issues

Our list of the top 10 issues facing the world in the coming year.

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Ten Challenges Around the World in 2014

The Globalist identifies the biggest challenges facing some of the world’s leading countries in the coming year.

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50 Years Ago: Lyndon Johnson’s First Foreign Crisis

On January 9, 1964, a new president’s foreign policy skills were put to the test by a crisis in Panama.

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