Economist Mariana Mazzucato has called for a fundamental restructuring of capitalism, arguing that economic policy must place public welfare ahead of private profit. In an interview with Der Spiegel, she said governments
At a DIE ZEIT roundtable, three of Germany’s most prominent digital voices debate whether the dream of a “good internet” has already been lost—or whether regulation, innovation, and European sovereignty can still
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Eva Baltasar receives visitors in her home in Cardedeu, a quiet town on the edge of the Barcelona metropolitan area where city noise slowly dissolves into forest. The writer, born in Barcelona
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Few public intellectuals have spent more time analyzing the rise and decline of American global power than Fareed Zakaria. For decades, the Indian-born journalist and geopolitical commentator has occupied a unique position
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The political alliance between Donald Trump and media personality Tucker Carlson, once one of the most powerful engines of the American right, is fracturing in public view. In an extensive interview published
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Paushali Lass is a transnational consultant, writer, and speaker whose work bridges geopolitics, culture, and identity across India, Germany, and Israel. Born in Kolkata and raised in New Delhi within a strongly
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In a world marked by geopolitical disorder and growing democratic fatigue, Belarusian Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich offers a stark and unsettling diagnosis of the present. Speaking from her exile in Berlin,
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How does a state come to justify the movement of warplanes over civilian cities as a matter of necessity rather than catastrophe? At what point does strategic language begin to absorb human
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Adela Cortina, one of Spain’s most influential contemporary thinkers and a key voice in European ethics, has offered a stark yet measured diagnosis of the country’s evolution over the past 50 years.
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The Spanish writer Elvira Lindo has returned to the years she once spent moving between Madrid and New York, reflecting on a turbulent period that now reads, in her view, like an
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Two years after the death of Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, Yulia Navalnaya says she still hears her husband’s voice. It is not only a memory but a guiding force, shaping her
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“What we are seeing is the redistribution of the ways that they funnel money,” Ella Rosenberg says, describing a shift that reflects not only tactical adaptation but a structural evolution in how
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Yves Goulet is a former public servant whose professional life was deeply enmeshed within Canada’s intelligence architecture for over three decades. He commenced his career in 1994 with the Canadian Security Intelligence
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK chief M.K. Stalin has cast the upcoming Assembly election as far more than a routine political contest, describing it as a defining confrontation between what he
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Andrew Lloyd Webber, one of the most influential figures in modern musical theatre, has revealed the depth of his struggle with alcoholism and the dramatic personal and professional transformation that has followed
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Few living figures embody Hungary’s turbulent modern history as fully as Paul Lendvai. Born in 1929 in Budapest, he survived the Holocaust, was imprisoned under communism, fled the country after the failed
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