The Globalist

On Obama’s awkward efforts to defend his trade strategy.

A two-term presidency spent on running away from Black America.

The United States is looking increasingly left behind as it defies its closest allies in Asia.

After the State of the Union speech, a United States that can’t agree on anything?

Despite a plethora of quite fixable problems, Americans seem increasingly inclined just to look the other way.

Reflections on U.S. politics as an eternal talk show.

President Obama has set ambitious carbon emission goals for the United States. Can it rise to the challenge?

Is Obama using executive power to satisfy a constituency and put it above the rule of law?

Like Reagan and Bush, Obama takes action when Congress won’t.

How can someone so politically adept at campaigning be so politically incompetent at governing?