When Godzilla dances on ant colonies: With no further proof required, across the world, nation-by-nation, the biggest tax-contributors and new jobs creators are really the small medium business sectors. Yet at the same time, despite lesser contributions to national taxes and low on new job creations the big business sectors …

Syed Rizvi Japan has been an intriguing case study in the scope of macroeconomic policymaking. Since the burst of Japan’s economic bubble in the early 1990s, inflation has been frustratingly low, and growth has been modest at best. In 2021, Japan’s inflation rate stood at -0.174%. In the …

Colum Lynch From the White House to Turtle Bay, sanctions have never been more popular. But why are they so hard to make work? Foreign Policy illustration/Getty Images Sanctions have never been more popular in Washington and at the United Nations, but the system for enforcing them is …

Allison Meakem Next year’s contests are set to bring populist reckonings, parliamentary headaches, and a possible democratic crisis or two. Jon Benedict illustration for Foreign Policy/Getty Images In the United States, where campaigns are temporally unbounded and election season seems constant, politicians and observers alike are already fixated …

Robbie Gramer From the AUKUS fracas to China’s bullying tactics in Europe, here are some of the top diplomatic spats from the past year that could haunt us in the next. U.S. President Joe Biden gestures as he meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a virtual summit …

Giancarlo Valori  Obviously, web ethics must primarily be behavioural in nature. Its task is to serve as a tool for making decisions in morally difficult situations. However, as long as web ethics is seen only as one of the mechanisms of the Internet normative self-regulation, based on the …

Sarah Zhang “I do not see a scenario for any kind of shutdown,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared this week, as parts of New York were in fact shutting down all around him. Broadway canceled show after show. Restaurants closed their kitchens. De Blasio’s successor, …

Robert Atkinson During the era of the Cold War, the United States and Europe cooperated militarily, but competed economically. At the time, the Soviet Union posed a military, not an economic, threat to the West. Today, in what could become a second Cold War, this time with China, …

Stephan Richter spoke to Marketplace’s David Brancaccio about the issues Germany’s new chancellor Olaf Scholz will face in office. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s term will come to an end this week. Social Democrat Olaf Scholz will take office once the country’s Congress affirms his government with a vote, …