The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.

Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.

We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.

But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.