The Globalist

What is the historic context and potential significance of the protest movement directed against Wall Street?

Could it be that France is in for a repeat of its transformative early 1980s experience?

Will Germany have a nationwide CSU at last — in the form of the FDP?

How successfully is Europe coping with its unprecedented fiscal challenges?

The weakened office of the President raises very serious questions about the ability of the United States to adapt to modern times.

Did former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel really utter his most famous words — "Never let a serious crisis go to waste" — in vain?

How were corporate managers gripped by fear long before, and wholly independent of, 9/11?

Does Woody Allen now see New York as heaven, as hell or as earth — or all three combined?

Will U.S. students take a page from their Chilean brethren and protest the high cost of college education?

Why has China’s government done little to stop the country’s smoking epidemic?