The Globalist

The 1888 Great Debate over US trade policy inspired literary luminaries like Walt Whitman and Mark Twain to take sides.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has been a steadfast advocate for constructiveness in the West Balkans.

How the 1888 elections decided the protectionist course of U.S. economic expansion for decades to come.

Trade flows in agricultural products and the high-stakes games of international sanctions.

Is Silicon Valley the 21st century American equivalent of the inferno/purgatory? Or of paradise?

Pakistan’s generals like to blame their country’s cycle of political violence on foreign forces. In reality, it is largely home-made.

Does Germany’s Chancellor really not understand the cynical ways in which Turkey’s President plays her? Is it naiveté – or appeasement?

With next to no obstacles in his way any longer, Turkey’s President will soon run out of people to blame for Turkey’s mounting woes. The country will suffer.

Supporters of identity politics feel safer by shutting doors to the rest of the world. Who pays the price? How did elites contribute to it all?

How the constitutional monarch may be able to set the tone for social change in Japan.