The Globalist

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.

Reflections on the fragility of academic freedoms and human rights.

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.