The Globalist

In a curious twist of history, Baerbock holds the promise to execute on what turned out to be Angela Merkel’s highly misleading self-advertising.

Putin’s little PR bluster games shows how much Russia has declined in the global league tables of geopolitical relevance. Why Joe Biden won’t take Putin’s bait.

Republicans increasingly force U.S. corporations to act as a kind of extra-parliamentary opposition to protect their brands and consumer appeal.

Big Tech media present a serious challenge for Western democracies. Tackling them is a worthy mission for the Biden Administration and the EU to work on jointly.

Yet more evidence that US Republicans are close soul mates of Russia’s President when it comes to restraining democracy.

One does not need to be a hardliner on China, just a global realist, to see that there is a vast gap between Xi’s rhetoric and reality.

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

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

We are no fans of neo-liberalism. But look who is now suddenly disavowing it.

As much as the current German government would wish otherwise, the North Stream 2 pipeline controversy continues to threaten European unity as well as transatlantic solidarity.