Russia’s and Turkey’s lack of a solid economic performance is what motivates their two leaders’ steady resorting to domestic oppression.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the first African and the first woman to serve in the WTO’s top post. But she faces formidable challenges.

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.

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.