The Globalist

By Stephan Richter, September 22, 2018

Why the UK’s Brexit strategy is such a terrible failure diplomatically.

By Martin Hutchinson, September 21, 2018

Financial engineering has paid much better dividends for corporations than actual engineering. For the health especially of the U.S. economy, this needs to be reversed.

By Frank Vogl, September 19, 2018

Former European leaders took secret cash for their engagement in Ukraine. Will that have consequences?

By Martin Hüfner, September 18, 2018

The Economist’s recent feature on today’s Germany as a model for all of Europe was fake news. The signs of crisis – mainly a widespread complacency – are already visible in financial markets.

By Andrés Ortega, September 17, 2018

The big prize being eyed by the anti-European and xenophobic parties are the elections to the European Parliament next May.

By Rupert Strachwitz, September 16, 2018

With Brexit, the British government remains depressingly out of touch with the world.

By Gurcharan Das, September 15, 2018

For 157 years, Indians have lived under a tyrannical colonial law that was contrary to our country’s ancient spirit.

By Uwe Bott, September 14, 2018

It can feel very rewarding emotionally to blame Mexicans (and other foreigners) for one’s economic plight. It is far less satisfying to yell at robots.

By Uwe Bott, September 13, 2018

The surprisingly strong interest rate hike in Turkey makes a recession even more likely.

By Ira Straus, September 13, 2018

The Trump trade deal with Mexico is, in a smaller way for now, another of those rare Nixon in China moments. It has the potential to alter the arc of contemporary history.

By James M. Dorsey, September 12, 2018

UN and U.S. criticism put pressure on the Islamic world to speak out against China's actions to rein in Islam at home.

By Stephan Richter, September 12, 2018

Can Republicans' efforts to tilt U.S. democracy toward feudalism be stopped?

By Stephan Richter, September 11, 2018

How it has taken a political novice in the White House only a year and a half to hollow out the centuries-old system of the U.S. separation of powers.

By Denis MacShane, September 10, 2018

Do the disgusting comments Boris Johnson hurled at Theresa May finally mark the end of Boris Johnson’s career in British politics? Might emigration to Trump’s America be his only option?

By The Globalist, September 8, 2018

The fledgling network does not compare well to other countries with high-speed trains.