The Globalist

Why do social buying websites owe much to the Japanese practice of deflation?

Will the United States ever get around to fixing its immigration system?

What's a creative solution to give the emerging market countries their fair leadership share in the IMF?

Imagine Europe had rapidly brought to bear all the firepower imaginable in Libya. Would the world be better off?

Germany is abandoning nuclear energy. What can the world learn from this type of “adventurism”?

How has Turkey’s prime minister succeeded in modernizing his country?

Are Germany’s recent foreign policy missteps evidence of a new neo-isolationist tendency?

From Barack Obama’s perspective, could Tim Pawlenty turn out to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing?

How could Facebook, YouTube and Twitter help to limit the role of money in U.S. politics?

How is the U.S.-Pakistan relationship reminiscent of that between Democrats and Republicans?