A Newsweek business roundtable looks at the two faces of globalization and whether the United States can stay ahead.

Globalization and rapid advances in high technology are transforming how we will live, work, and protect ourselves in the twenty-first century and beyond. Many of the most important and revolutionary of these changes are taking place in the developing world and emerging markets, offering new hope for even the poorest...

Do voucher programs force public schools into a zero-sum game by redirecting public funds and promising students to private schools? Or do school-choice options spur healthy competition by pressuring public schools to improve?

 It’s time for policymakers to man up about the fact that the missions heaped upon the military are growing as they pour resources into handouts for bad mortgages, unemployment and other entitlements. Those who pay most dearly wear the uniform. They will not be able to keep it up much longer. And we won’t be the America we think we are anymore.

If you want redistribution, you better first produce growth. Which the Obama Democrats' policies have failed to do.

Jane Perlez's and William Wan's articles in today's papers (the New York Times and Washington Post, respectively) stand as a minor but important milestone in elite understanding of international relations in the 21st century. Though they provide only a summary of a Brookings monograph - the product...