The Globalist

What does the genocide conviction of Guatemala’s former General Rios Montt mean for the survivors?

Does it even make sense to hold federal elections in the United States? After all, they never provide any real resolution.

Twenty years after the dismantlement of the Soviet Union, post-imperial Russia is beginning to emerge as a nation.

Does Canada really help explain the United States’ characteristic “way of war”?

Can Egypt’s military be trusted to allow democracy to take root in the country?

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

Will the threat of terrorism fade away, much as the threat of radical anarchy did over a century ago?

What would it take to create an environment of Cyprus-like co-existence in the Holy Land?

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 was cheap labor key to turning Britain, Germany and the United States into industrial powers?