The Globalist

Why don’t Americans let themselves be spurred to stimulate their competitive juices when they look at China?

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

How did Germany link its own ideas to those emerging from France, North America and South America in the late 18th and 19th centuries?

Do Americans — who have a conflicted attitude toward government — realize the economic power that Abraham Lincoln wielded?

Does the United States have a stellar credit record — or is it a nation of deadbeats?

How does Europe exercise world power? Isn’t doing it away from military battlefields a truly modern form of global leadership?

When it comes to economic growth, is the United States more like China or like Europe?

Is the euro crisis just a European crisis — or is it a global crisis in search of a global governance solution?

Why are Republicans having such a hard time coming to grips with the electoral defeat?

What is worse — going over the fiscal cliff or emulating Europe’s economic policymakers?