How Olaf Scholz lost Germany
German voters have come to distrust their chancellor – but that’s just the start of his problems.
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Sahra Wagenknecht’s plan for peace
Why the left-wing politician wants to free Germany from Washington’s grip.
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Get ready for the worst
Germany’s political crisis is a warning for Keir Starmer.
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The Gessen affair and Germany’s ignorance about Jews
By criticising the journalist Masha Gessen, Germany misunderstands one of its greatest thinkers, Hannah Arendt.
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Germany’s new years of lead
The radical centre is paving the way for its own demise.
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Christmas in Hamburg
At the city’s festive markets shopping is not the objective: it is to meet friends and sip Glühwein.
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What it means to be German
Frank Trentmann’s history reveals how modern Germany found a new moral purpose after the horrors of Nazism.
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Clemens Meyer’s lessons from history
The author on growing up in the GDR, the rise of the far-right and Germany’s “responsibility” for the conflict in…
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Sahra Wagenknecht’s new left conservatism
Europe’s leaders are keenly watching the German breakaway party.
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Sahra Wagenknecht’s new left-populist party should be taken seriously
This is not a bunch of Trots but a well-prepared team with a clear agenda.
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Max Pechstein and the politics of paint
Amid Germany’s 20th-century upheavals, the expressionist’s art brought him both renown and peril.
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A guide to Berlin’s orchestral etiquette
Also: My brush with bicycle “fascism” and a sobering threat to fiction writing.
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Europe’s east-west divide is widening
Relations between Germany and Poland define the continent. But, ahead of the latter’s election this weekend, they are in crisis…
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The left’s slide in Germany is a warning for Labour
In power, Olaf Scholz’s coalition offers no answers for a country that has lost its competitive edge in the world.…
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The return of the two Germanys
The country is in economic and political crisis and parties of the extreme left and right are rising again.
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Brexit has made the EU less liberal and open
Brussels’ embrace of protectionism is a problem for those who yearn for closer ties with Europe.
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The AfD’s nuclear option
How the German far right could end up in government.
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Why is the far right surging in Germany?
Economic and social marginalisation is pushing voters towards the AfD.
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In defence of “what if?”
Why counterfactual history is an essential tool for understanding the present.
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Bismarck is still the GOAT
The Iron Chancellor reshaped a continent in his image.
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