The Globalist

Reflections on gargantuan levels of military spending, pseudo “efficiency”-minded corporate outsourcing and an ill-fated obsession with American exceptionalism.

If valuing human rights and dignity is “socialist,” then sign me up.

Europe keeps dithering on the global stage. Even the French and the Germans can’t fake consensus anymore.

Amidst many worries about globalization, suggestions for a constructive path forward.

A collection of charts, maps and graphs exploring global hunger — in a world that has enough food to feed everyone.

The U.S. model of shareholder capitalism only benefits the top 10% of society. Northern Europe’s codetermination model expands economic opportunity.

If, in the B.T. (=Before Trump) era, anybody had ever posited that the Republican Party would turn out to be Moscow’s and Putin’s best ally, they would have been declared insane.

Why are Republicans siding with Trump’s trade war? Is it because they are dead-set against the European economic model which seeks social balance?

Decades after Apartheid, violence remains an unresolved obstacle to the country’s success.

The “forgotten” Americans – to whom Trump solemnly promised that they would be forgotten no more – are likely to go empty-handed.