The Globalist

How does the emergence of China look through the prism of a Westerner’s life?

Trauma and historical memory in Germany and Indonesia.

Over the last 5,000 years, what has made the concept of debt so strangely powerful?

A collection of charts, graphs and maps exploring Berlin.

Seizing on anti-immigrant sentiment before an election is not a new phenomenon in the U.S. It goes back to the 19th century.

Long before Latinos became the target of anti-immigration sentiments, Chinese laborers were in the crosshairs of nativist Americans.

There must be a new urgency to ensuring that people everywhere understand the horrors of the past and the dangers of today’s authoritarian trends.

Scott Tong travels to China to discover how his great-grandfather saved the Tong family village during World War Two.

Scott Tong returns to China to find his grandmother’s old school in Nanchang.

Scott Tong’s quest to find a place that may no longer even exist: The ancestral Tong family village–Fu Ma Ying.