Opinion
Under Trump, America can no longer be trusted
From left, activists wearing masks of German far-right chancellor candidate Alice Weidel, Elon Musk, President Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Vice President JD Vance protest the U.S. and Russia’s ...
Surging far-right AfD hopes to score new legitimacy as Germans prepare to vote
Germans will head to the polls Sunday looking for leadership at a deeply uncertain time, but all eyes will be trained on a ...
Germany votes Sunday for a new government that will shape Europe’s response to an assertive Trump
Europe’s biggest economy is the 27-nation European Union’s most populous nation and a leading member of NATO, as well as the ...
Friday Briefing: Germans Are Choosing New Leadership
Germans will head to the polls on Sunday to choose their next chancellor. The man favored to clinch the election is Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democrats. He has been considered a potentially ...
Bret Stephens: Vance’s Munich disgrace
The vice president’s speech last week at the Munich Security Conference, combined with his meeting with the leader of the far ...
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Germany’s ‘firewall’ against populism has held so far. Sunday will be its biggest test.
Germany democracy was built to repel the populism now sweeping the West. That makes its elections Sunday a test of whether ...
Vance’s Munich disgrace
An American vice president went to Munich to carry on about his idealism while breaking bread with those who would obliterate ...
Dark Shadows of Fascism Over Germany and the US
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan As the US drifts closer to authoritarianism, the words of Hans and Sophie Scholl and the ...
German election: why most political parties aren’t talking about the climate crisis
If the AfD’s broader aim was to take green issues off the political agenda, the plan appears to be working. In the run-up to ...
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In Germany, social media algorithms are pumping out huge amounts of far-right, pro-AfD content
A new study found that, on TikTok and Elon Musk's Twitter, nearly 3/4 of all partisan content being pushed algorithmically to ...
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Conservative Merz leads Germany's turbulent election race
Friedrich Merz, expected to become Germany's next chancellor, has vowed to rule Europe's top economy by returning to his Christian Democrats' conservative roots ...