Stephan Richter

Director of the Global Ideas Center, a global network of authors and analysts, and Editor-in-Chief of The Globalist.

Corruption Campaign in China: What it Means for the World

The arrest of a top official might be the first shot in a battle to root out corruption in China.

Read more »

Hedge Funds as Bottom Fishers

How America’s rich ruthlessly exploit the dysfunctional U.S. political system.

Read more »

Clinton-itis as a National Disease

Clinton moneymaking, national “conversations” and the US policy agenda.

Read more »

U.S. Spying and Europe’s Disillusioned Pro-American Elites

Why are some of Europe’s pro-American elites now wondering whether they got it wrong?

Read more »

A Germany That Bets Big

Five unconventional moves that made Germany the 2014 World Cup champions.

Read more »

Iraq’s Predictable Fate

Will the purveyors of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq ever pay a penance for their sins of warmongering?

Read more »

Freeing Poland From the Shackles of Its Debt Mountain

The story of how the transatlantic partners collaborated to help Poland secure a stable future.

Read more »

The NRA: Still America’s Cosa Nostra

The UCSB shooting is yet another monument to the cowering silence the NRA has forced the U.S. public into.

Read more »

The Rise of the “Little Englanders”

Why are anti-immigration parties on the rise in much of Europe?

Read more »

The New Vietnam War

Global ironies in Asia’s continuing struggle for national independence, now against China.

Read more »