The Globalist

A prison-industrial complex by the numbers.

The share of global guns in the United States is at least ten times the country’s population share.

What is the U.S. share of the global problem compared to overall population share?

A big share of Iran’s economy is owned by the business wings of the armed forces.

Cuts and hikes in all the wrong places?

Iranians have long taken national pride in their natural resource wealth. But ordinary people aren’t seeing the benefits.

Once again, sharply rising food prices contribute to turmoil.

Most Iranians live in cities. Protests are no longer confined to Tehran and other big cities, as the move to small cities is changing the landscape of protests.

Iran’s economy continues to struggle with not finding enough jobs for its young.

More than 20 languages are spoken as a first language by 50 million or more people.