The Globalist

Why are Americans hesitant to elect their president by a direct popular vote?

If Reagan is the father of modern U.S. conservatism, Ayn Rand is certainly its mother.

Is UBS’s exit from fixed-income trading a harbinger that other self-correcting measures will take hold in the financial industry?

Has China become more of a factor in the United States’ domestic politics than in its foreign policy?

Would a German exit from the eurozone be good for Europe’s southern economies?

Are Republicans intent on creating a U.S. nanny state, too — only substituting employers for the government?

Was the multigenerational, multiracial and multiethnic Democratic convention a reflection America’s melting pot society?

Why might taking a leadership role on climate change help conservatives preserve the civil liberties they fear environmentalists will take away?

What is it about U.S. and UK financial and foreign policy elites that has them engage so willingly in excessive risk-taking?

Why do people who consider themselves pro-free market take radically different positions on the mobility of capital and labor?