The Oprah Winfrey interview lights a fire that is consuming the British royals.
Jeffrey Sachs: Xi Propagandist?
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.
Putin and Erdogan: Two Men Race to the Bottom
Russia’s and Turkey’s lack of a solid economic performance is what motivates their two leaders’ steady resorting to domestic oppression.
WTO: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s Long and Winding Road
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the first African and the first woman to serve in the WTO’s top post. But she faces formidable challenges.
US: Can Pursuing Happiness, as the Founders Defined It, Bring Us Together?
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.
Turkey: Erdogan’s Battle Over Bogazici University
Reflections on the fragility of academic freedoms and human rights.
Immunizing the World: Can We Do It?
Global governance on immunization against COVID 19 has failed quite badly so far. The West will experience a blowback.
Mr. Steinmeier’s Faux Pas: Pleasing Russia, Stiffing Eastern Europe
North Stream 2: Is the gas pipeline’s completion really mandated by history, as the German President has claimed?
COVID 19 and the Culture and Costs of German Introspection
Why do we Germans learn so little from very relevant Asian countries in fighting the pandemic?

























