As the corona pandemic hit households worldwide, Japan, the United States, South Korea, Italy and Spain turned to the basic income scheme, offering no-strings-attached payments to citizens in need.

Objectively speaking, German politicians have earned a good report card for their management of the corona pandemic so far. Why then is there so much anger about the national coronavirus response?

Biodiversity has never been more at risk than it is today. To halt this trend, the global community urgently needs to agree on new goals. Will the 15th Biodiversity Conference finally be able to happen despite Corona?

In the second election attempt this year, there is still no sign that anti-establishment parties will manage to replace the corrupt Bulgarian political elite. Will the EU finally do something to support Bulgarians?

The distribution of the coronavirus vaccine around the world is glaringly unjust. But the fight against the pandemic shows that many wealthy countries also have an equity problem within their own borders.

Ten years after the devastating tsunami and triple core meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 11, 2011, Japan is still struggling with the fallout.

EU and OECD countries differ in their ability to counter the corona crisis and its fallout. However, any issues that were overlooked before the pandemic will be difficult to catch up on once it is all behind us.

President Donald Trump’s chances of reelection do not look good, even after his miraculous bout of corona. But even if Joe Biden’s wins the election, it could plunge the nation into a serious democratic and constitutional crisis.