The Globalist

By James M. Dorsey, October 20, 2021

The extremes of the political spectrum are crushing the political center and breeding radicalism

By Denis MacShane, October 19, 2021

We had rising inflation and unemployment. Same today.

By Pallavi Aiyar, October 15, 2021

Three large Asian nations -- China, India and Indonesia -- are polyphonic and geographically diverse. They all made different choices on their national language.

By James M. Dorsey, October 14, 2021

Societal struggles and reform often take unexpected turns in vast swaths of land stretching from the Middle East into Central Asia.

By Andrés Ortega, October 11, 2021

Are we really capable of negotiating our collective future?

By Gurjit Singh, October 4, 2021

Providing a soft power alternative to China, in Southeast Asia

By Denis MacShane, September 30, 2021

Boris Johnson’s Brexit maneuver is backfiring on store shelves and crippling the country’s logistics. But the British PM is a master of cynical, but well-timed distractions.

By J.D. Bindenagel, September 28, 2021

Europe needs to make clear proposals to the U.S. in its Indo-Pacific strategy to set a common approach to China.

By Thomas Mayer, September 22, 2021

The three candidates to succeed Angela Merkel as German Chancellor are woefully unprepared to deal with geopolitical pressures.

By Denis MacShane, September 20, 2021

As the long-time German chancellor completes her last term in office, it isn’t just her own center-right party that is struggling at the polls.

By Terri Langston, September 14, 2021

Conservative Supreme Court Justices are making unaccountable and undemocratic decisions, much like the Vatican Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.

By Pallavi Aiyar, September 9, 2021

How Japan’s culture of overwork and lack of personal space makes life even more difficult for men than women.

By Stephan Richter, September 9, 2021

As tragic as September 11 was, it triggered a return to the American past - a nation driven by fear, not optimism.

By Bernard Wasow, September 8, 2021

Why do so many people still oppose vaccination for COVID?

By Julia Watson, September 5, 2021

Butter’s history, its troubled path to the present – plus a recipe for buttery shortbread.