The Globalist

How the U.S. handles the U.S.-Mexican border will say much about its character as a nation.

Republicans increasingly force U.S. corporations to act as a kind of extra-parliamentary opposition to protect their brands and consumer appeal.

Yet more evidence that US Republicans are close soul mates of Russia’s President when it comes to restraining democracy.

One does not need to be a hardliner on China, just a global realist, to see that there is a vast gap between Xi’s rhetoric and reality.

No government can guarantee our happiness. That depends on our own efforts and luck. But government can make it harder or easier to attain happiness.

The German legal system offers a perfect way out of a great U.S. legal conundrum during Trump’s second impeachment trial.

How to Make Washington, D.C. the 51st U.S. State.

In many ways, the case for Puerto Rican statehood is equally compelling as that for Washington, D.C.

As much as the current German government would wish otherwise, the North Stream 2 pipeline controversy continues to threaten European unity as well as transatlantic solidarity.

Could Spain — not post-war Germany or post-Maoist China — serve Americans as a model to rid the U.S. of Mr. Trump for good?