The Globalist

The economist inadvertently puts a spotlight on everything wrong with his profession and with himself.

What is keeping Americans in a September 2001 mentality almost a decade and a half later?

Asian martial arts films have inspired young people in Burkina Faso to pick up karate.

Has the attempted cure for 9/11 made the fear more real?

Eliminating capital controls leads to more income inequality at home.

What happens when the world’s presumably most powerful man plays the role of participant-observer while still in the Oval Office?

Takeaways for the would-be frontrunners from Tuesday’s U.S. presidential primaries.

Democracies sometimes need pitchforks. Trump will be a bad enough leader to bring them out.

Half of the top ten have had women heads of government or state.

Which countries led the way on women leaders and which are outliers at the top?