The Globalist

How to Make Washington, D.C. the 51st U.S. State.

In many ways, the case for Puerto Rican statehood is equally compelling as that for Washington, D.C.

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

Power outages in the capital city of the United States are a surprisingly regular feature.

Can the D.C. mayor-in-waiting overcome the racial divide that persists in the U.S. capital city?

California is a land of its own, constrained by 49 other states. How many of the smallest U.S. states would it take to reach the population of California?

How have today’s Europeans turned out to be the real practitioners of the American notion of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”?

An amazing conversation on the role and responsibility of elites in the U.S. capital.

Do residents of Iraq’s capital have a right that D.C. residents can only dream of?