The Globalist

3 min read 2021-12-08 03:40:20

What Kind of Economy Will Germany’s New Leader Inherit?

By The GlobalistStephan Richter spoke to Marketplace’s David Brancaccio about the issues Germany's new chancellor Olaf Scholz will face in office.

8 min read 2021-12-04 19:27:39

By Terri LangstonExamining the parallels in the political style and performance of Angela Merkel and Barack Obama, the past decade’s transatlantic

4 min read 2021-12-04 07:25:51

By James M. DorseyReligious and ethnic intolerance around the world threatens to spin out of control. The world is balancing on the edge of an abyss

5 min read 2021-12-03 04:54:09

By Alon Ben-MeirWhen Erdogan leaves the political scene, it will be with a public mixture of contempt and relief – not with the reverence that was

4 min read 2021-12-02 05:11:50

By Denis MacShaneIn next year’s presidential election, will France retreat from reason and science to embrace radical politics?Suddenly, the French

6 min read 2021-11-30 23:46:48

By Nirupama Menon RaoA history retold about India and China from 1949 to 1962, a formative and yet self-destructive phase in a troubled

4 min read 2021-11-30 00:32:34

By Robert D. AtkinsonThe EU and the U.S. need to address the real technology competitiveness challenge, which is China. During the era of the Cold

1 min read 2021-11-27 04:47:27

By Grete FaremoA sustainable approach to the Covid-19 pandemic could produce better health systems: We need to pay more attention to the last mile

1 min read 2021-11-17 05:11:10

By Stephen F. SzaboWhy the strategic situation in Europe today, occasioned by the standoff at the Polish-Belarus border, resembles 1914 more than

1 min read 2021-11-16 08:32:40

By Barry WoodReflections on the life of the late South African President. In Shakespeare’s drama about the plot to kill Julius Caesar, the 16th

1 min read 2021-11-13 22:43:11

By Julia WatsonA recipe for a simple store-cupboard curryThe world’s powerful gathered for nearly two weeks in Glasgow to plan how to combat global

1 min read 2021-11-09 02:36:03

By Alexei Bayer and Stephan RichterThe parallels between the Leninist power usurpation in early 20th century Russia and the Trumpian brigades in

4 min read 2021-11-09 02:36:03

By Stephan Richter and Alexei BayerThe parallels between the Leninist power usurpation in early 20th century Russia and the Trumpian brigades in

1 min read 2021-11-03 23:37:34

By Andrés OrtegaHow the fight against inequality at home unites -- and separates -- Biden and Xi Jinping. And who seems to have the upper hand.The

1 min read 2021-10-30 03:18:52

By Denis MacShane and Stephan RichterThe EU-related obstinacy of Poland’s governing party is rooted not just in the desire to rewrite their own