The Globalist

Why are Americans hesitant to elect their president by a direct popular vote?

The global balance of economic power is changing — and the IMF is changing right along with it.

What is the most potent move to improve the competitiveness of the United States on the global stage?

Is the Western world too reliant on the ease and simplicity of e-commerce?

Was the multigenerational, multiracial and multiethnic Democratic convention a reflection America’s melting pot society?

Why is it taking so long to write and implement new U.S. financial reform regulations?

Can China’s market-building approach to Africa complement the West’s tradition democracy-building approach?

To Norbert Walter, Germany needed shaking up. Constantly. His presence in the debate over the country’s economic future will be sorely missed.

What is motivating Germany and China to pursue their new “strategic dialogue?”

What is it about U.S. and UK financial and foreign policy elites that has them engage so willingly in excessive risk-taking?