Global governance on immunization against COVID 19 has failed quite badly so far. The West will experience a blowback.

North Stream 2: Is the gas pipeline’s completion really mandated by history, as the German President has claimed?

Corruption and debt darken the global outlook for democracy.

Why do we Germans learn so little from very relevant Asian countries in fighting the pandemic?

Open restaurants will lift the spirits of society as a whole. That is especially important for the young.

The recurring question of what freedom means in the political and the everyday world.

The German legal system offers a perfect way out of a great U.S. legal conundrum during Trump’s second impeachment trial.

While tens of thousands of Yemeni men, women and children are dying from starvation and disease, the world is shamelessly watching with deafening silence.

The EU tends to move more slowly — but it does get its act together.

How to Make Washington, D.C. the 51st U.S. State.