A fragile democracy, the Weimar Republic, briefly took hold in Germany before the Nazis seized power. Now, Weimar’s collapse ...

Ninety-two years ago this month, on Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. In one of the most astonishing political transformations in ...

On 14 August 1919, Germany’s first democratic constitution came into force. The Constitution of the German Reich, soon known as Weimar Constitution marked the end of the German Empire and introduced a ...

Germany's far-right populists are on the rise, as are random, violent street killings. People are dizzy with the potential – and danger – of new mass media. And, all over Berlin, posters have gone up ...

If it’s an election year it must be time to revisit the tragic fate of the short-lived Weimar Republic. Critics of the Republican presidential convention’s allegedly “dark” tone see even more reason ...

Justice Minister Wijayadasa Rajapakshe told Parliament on Tuesday that the Supreme Court’s suspension of a section of the Constitution was like Adolf Hitler suspending the operation of civil rights ...

While we tend to think of courts as the guardrails of democracy, in 1920s Germany they were among its most implacable and insidious enemies. Samuel Huneke, George Mason University Thank you again.