Editor: The dynamics of the current presidential race are starting to remind me of Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. Political dysfunction, inflation, and a sharply divided electorate bedeviled the ...

Destitute Germans on the streets of Berlin, 1919 - Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images If you want to know where our polarised, gullible, narcissistic world might end up, I advise you to ...

For years now we’ve heard that even moderately conservative Republicans are “far right” and deserving of the “Nazi” label. And Republican presidential candidates routinely are tagged with the “Hitler” ...

Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany” and Frank McDonough’s “The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933” examine the era through different lenses. But both emphasize Germany’s ...

Today was Election Day in France and the EU, to elect the new European Parliament. The results in France are not definitive at the time of this post, but the Rassemblement National (far right, lead by ...

When it comes to the removal of a federal inspector general, the law seems pretty straight-forward. The president has the authority to do it, but he must first a) provide Congress with 30-day notice ...