The Globalist

The history of Kurdistan helps explain the Kurds’ current conundrum.

Across all disciplines, only one in twenty Nobel recipients have been women.

U.S. job market may be marching back to pre-recession numbers, but these gains are unevenly distributed.

Poland has come a long way since the fall of the Soviet Union.

How much smaller is Russia today than in its days as an empire?

The impact is not as big as you think.

An independent Scotland would have slightly more people than Turkmenistan.

How many people around the world can be called a millionaire?

The United States is the only major economy that trades less with Africa now than six years ago.

Ukraine is a big deal in Europe — literally.