The Globalist

Stephan Richter talks with Marketplace host David Brancaccio on why Trump’s trade policies may resurrect COMECON, an old Communist trade policy.

Despite the boldness of his moves, Crown Prince Mohammed has sent mixed messages about how far he is prepared to go to reform Saudi Arabia.

The country might be constitutionally backward on other fronts, but it is still a model on executive term limits.

Corruption and the lack of the rule of law is a fundamental cause of the Afghan debacle.

A note on U.S. and European car tariffs to a very stable genius.

Vanity and materialism — not cheating — drive German luxury car sales in the US.

Nobody sticks around long in the Trump Administration once they cross Trump on an issue that is meaningful to him.

Washington is becoming eerily similar to Putin’s government of FSB cronies.

Trump gets ever closer to having a puppet cabinet. This is dangerous for the United States, but more importantly dangerous for the world.

The overall gender gap and the political representation gap specifically is still a century from closing at the current pace.