The Globalist

Ai Weiwei engages in the very same racial stereotyping about Germany that he complains, with very thin, if not contrived proof the Germans exhibited toward him.

Grass-roots interactions may not lay the groundwork for a viable relationship between the U.S. and China – but they can’t hurt.

What a dead Swiss novelist teaches us about the everyday men and women who are the willing, but unwitting accomplices of Donald Trump.

There must be a new urgency to ensuring that people everywhere understand the horrors of the past and the dangers of today’s authoritarian trends.

Can we still stop a world of technological totalitarianism?

Prime Minister Abe’s fourth arrow should be a credible national apology.

How are Japanese nationalists trying to change the constitution "without anyone noticing"?

What is at stake if the U.S. and global economies lapse into a sustained depression?

Are the protests spreading across the developed world just the tip of the iceberg?

What does the “GINI” in the standard measurement for income inequality really stand for?