The Globalist

Why Jon Stewart’s rise may signify bad news for the United States — and the world as a whole.

While modern “Rome” is burning, why do U.S. foreign policy elites keep meddling in overseas adventures?

Why are U.S. health insurance companies as difficult to deal with as bureaucracies in Soviet-era Russia?

How has the UK’s coalition government succeeded in reinventing British politics and society?

Is President Obama really an anti-colonialist, as Dinesh D’Souza argues? And so what if he is?

What will the growing popularity of online book buying mean for Americans’ pocketbooks, the environment — and independent bookstores?

Keynesian measures are politically very contentious in the U.S. — even one it comes to applying them to the upper classes.

What accounts for Czech President Vaclav Klaus’s extreme skepticism about Europe’s future? Could he simply be channeling Ayn Rand?

In the wake of potential scandals and major missteps, how long will it be before Germany’s new president resigns?

Will Chinese battery manufacturer BYD be able to achieve its dream of becoming a leading electric-car maker?