By Aykan Erdemir, March 3, 2021
Russia’s and Turkey’s lack of a solid economic performance is what motivates their two leaders’ steady resorting to domestic oppression.
By Aykan Erdemir, March 3, 2021
Russia’s and Turkey’s lack of a solid economic performance is what motivates their two leaders’ steady resorting to domestic oppression.
By Arthur E. Appleton, March 1, 2021
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the first African and the first woman to serve in the WTO’s top post. But she faces formidable challenges.
By Michael Maccoby and Dan Morgan, February 28, 2021
No government can guarantee our happiness. That depends on our own efforts and luck. But government can make it harder or easier to attain happiness.
By Firat Demir, February 27, 2021
Reflections on the fragility of academic freedoms and human rights.
By Andrés Ortega, February 24, 2021
Global governance on immunization against COVID 19 has failed quite badly so far. The West will experience a blowback.
By Stephan Richter and J.D. Bindenagel, February 21, 2021
North Stream 2: Is the gas pipeline’s completion really mandated by history, as the German President has claimed?
By Frank Vogl, February 21, 2021
Corruption and debt darken the global outlook for democracy.
By Jürgen Gerhards and Michael Zürn, February 17, 2021
Why do we Germans learn so little from very relevant Asian countries in fighting the pandemic?
By Julia Watson, February 14, 2021
Open restaurants will lift the spirits of society as a whole. That is especially important for the young.
By Terri Langston, February 10, 2021
The recurring question of what freedom means in the political and the everyday world.
By Stephan Richter, February 9, 2021
The German legal system offers a perfect way out of a great U.S. legal conundrum during Trump’s second impeachment trial.
By Alon Ben-Meir, February 5, 2021
While tens of thousands of Yemeni men, women and children are dying from starvation and disease, the world is shamelessly watching with deafening silence.
By Holger Schmieding, February 3, 2021
The EU tends to move more slowly -- but it does get its act together.
By George R. Tyler, January 29, 2021
How to Make Washington, D.C. the 51st U.S. State.
By Stephan Richter and Uwe Bott, January 26, 2021
We are no fans of neo-liberalism. But look who is now suddenly disavowing it.