The Globalist

The U.S. President reflects on why Germans must be made to pay for all the wrongs they inflicted on the United States.

Fake facts, presented under the cover of academic neutrality, become a 2017 election topic in Germany.

Will the “cathedral” – aka the EU – ever be completed? Is it worth the effort? Or might it fall down and bankrupt its builders?

German companies need to do much more to live up to the transparency standards required by democracy in the age of globalization.

Not long ago, Germans shunned their country’s past. Now, they are far more open-eyed.

It is not on track to meet NATO commitments, but Germany argues it is paying in other ways.

Germany should point out to Trump that it is his own irresponsible macroeconomic policies that make the dollar strong and the euro weak.

The U.S. still leads by a lot, but Germany holds second-place in the number of foreign-born residents.

With Merkel lacking both an agenda and a vision, the US push to deal with Germany’s eternal export surplus is a welcome impetus for long overdue domestic reforms.

Stephan Richter, editor-in-chief of the Globalist, talked with David Brancaccio, host of NPR’s Marketplace Morning Report, about the aftermath of the Berlin Christmas market attack.