Does it even make sense to hold federal elections in the United States? After all, they never provide any real resolution.

How did Germany link its own ideas to those emerging from France, North America and South America in the late 18th and 19th centuries?

The Germans did not have an overseas empire in the 18th century. How did they still become a global force in trade, science, religion and exploration?

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?

Is the United States’ anti-regulation stance undermining its global power position?

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

Will the political class of India step up or will the Indians themselves need to reform government and rid it of corruption?

How could a nation become the world’s second-fastest growing economy despite having a weak, flailing state?

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