The Globalist

By Stephan Richter, August 17, 2018

Trump, the politician, evidently always needs a woman to beat up on. Think Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Angela Merkel, Theresa May, Margrethe Vestager and Omarosa Manigault Newman.

By Alexei Bayer, August 16, 2018

The tools President Donald Trump uses to build his electoral base and to keep it intact are borrowed from Nigerian scammers.

By Frank Vogl, August 15, 2018

The rot needs to stop if public trust in government, already at a low, is to be restored. But the prospects for constructive reforms are poor.

By Holger Schmieding, August 14, 2018

It may take a further rise in Italian bond yields to remind the populist government's leaders in Rome that their room for maneuver to operate with more debt is very limited.

By Carsten Hesse, August 13, 2018

A deep Turkish recession could lead to more migrants leaving Turkey for the EU. Currently more than three million Syrian refugees are living in Turkey.

By Martin Hüfner, August 12, 2018

If Trump has his way, the liberal market economy of the post-war period is ending. The Trump world proudly and unapologetically embraces mercantilism.

By Aykan Erdemir and Gonul Tol, August 10, 2018

Additional designations of Erdogan’s cronies would hurt the Turkish strongman’s warchest.

By James M. Dorsey, August 9, 2018

Multiple diplomatic spats raise questions about Saudi concept of sovereignty and its human rights obligations internationally.

By James M. Dorsey, August 7, 2018

The convergence of Russian-Turkish interests is likely only of a temporary nature.

By Alexei Bayer, August 7, 2018

Are the Koch brothers going to be devoured by the very same radical forces on the right-wing of Republican politics that they helped spawn?

By James M. Dorsey, August 6, 2018

China’s refusal to cut back on Iranian oil purchases opens up another frontline with the U.S.

By Alon Ben-Meir, August 5, 2018

In the age of Trump, the EU must strive toward ending its psychological and emotional dependency on the U.S. and be prepared to act unilaterally and independently.

By Andrés Ortega, August 4, 2018

The companies and employees of the firms that are creating AI-based surveillance technologies are no longer on the side-lines.

By Michael J. Brenner, August 3, 2018

For all the attention currently paid to Russia, let us not forget the long list of other places in the world where the current government of the United States has not been upholding the causes of political freedom, democracy and national sovereignty.

By Frank Vogl, August 2, 2018

The courts move to the center of the U.S. political debate.