The Globalist

Why the popular uprising against corrupt national elites in oil-rich Kazakhstan has Putin and Russia so nervous.

How the closure of the Memorial in Russia is a template for the kind of society Republicans want to build in the U.S.

Putin is keen on inciting “hybrid attacks” against the West to de-stabilize it. He may well end up inadvertently stabilizing it.

The parallels between the Leninist power usurpation in early 20th century Russia and the Trumpian brigades in today’s United States are becoming ever more eerie.

The EU-related obstinacy of Poland’s governing party is rooted not just in the desire to rewrite their own country’s post-war history, or even Europe’s. It is all a big-time deflection maneuver.

As tragic as September 11 was, it triggered a return to the American past – a nation driven by fear, not optimism.

If Germany’s CDU had used an executive search firm to find a successor for Angela Merkel as Chancellor, it would have probably come up with an intriguing proposition.

Are we finally reaching the post-ideological age? Given the complexity of today’s world, that would represent major progress.

Globalism, elitism, populism and God.

How the U.S. Senate’s filibuster rule must be modified to restore majority rule and give the U.S. a prayer to be a modern, dynamic country.