In Estonia, public administration is completely digitalized. Residents can pay their taxes, register their cars and even set up a company online. It’s not only convenient — the country also saves around 2 percent of its gross domestic product by eliminating bureaucratic costs. DER SPIEGEL: How do you define innovative governance then? Kaljulaid: I remember […]

Interview with Manfred Curbach, a professor and one of the engineers behind the reconstruction of Dresden’s Frauenkirche church.   SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mr. Curbach, how do you rebuild a church like Notre Dame, which is more than 800 years old? Manfred Curbach: That depends greatly on how severe the damage to the walls is. The Frauenkirche in Dresden was […]

DER SPIEGEL: Sir David, did you have a treasure chest as a child? DER SPIEGEL: You obviously haven’t stopped collecting things since your childhood. Attenborough: Yes, collecting is a basic male instinct. DER SPIEGEL: Why is that? Attenborough: I don’t know. There are a few women who collect, but not really great ones. One or two I can think of […]

Interview with The New York Times Publisher A. G. Sulzberger‘To Produce Good Journalism, There Are No Shortcuts’ Sulzberger: This is a really difficult time for media. Journalists and journalism are under attack by political forces all over the globe. Trust in media is declining, the business models are changing. Anyone who cares about journalism should […]

Could the world be running out of people? After painstakingly breaking down the numbers for themselves, the pair arrived at a drastically different prediction for the future of the human species. “In roughly three decades, the global population will begin to decline,” they write. “Once that decline begins, it will never end.” The authors John […]

“I think journalists ought to be aware that when you’re using intelligence [sources], there’s always a high risk you’re being deceived, lied to, propagandized or manipulated since that is what those agencies are designed to do,” explained Greenwald. How vulnerable is the current hyper-competitive, page-view based news model to manipulation? Number one, even if you […]

Your position seems to be that we should think of journalism in the same way as many European countries – and Canada, too – regard the arts, such as TV, film and music. These activities are often subsidized because there’s an understanding that the market can’t pay the full costs, yet they’re part of the […]

Alex Katz is 91 years old. He is not a regular FT reader. He doesn’t watch TV much, either. As he tells me later, over lunch at Cipriani, “I don’t even do the . . . the . . . email?” He needs all that energy to paint. The thing about Alex Katz is that he never fitted in. His parents immigrated from […]

What will happen in 2020 in America? Will Hillary Clinton run again? If the economy continues strong, Trump will be reelected. The Democrats (my party) have been in chaos since the 2016 election and have no coherent message except Trump hatred. To win in the nation’s broad midsection, the Democratic nominee will need to project steadiness, substance, and […]

. I’m sure plenty of people out there think I’m retired. Working on cars in my garage and driving them on TV probably doesn’t look like hard work. But that’s fine. The trick in show business has always been to look like you’re retired. When I did the “The Tonight Show” in the 1990s and […]