Germany's important election last week struggled to make the news cycle, even on Germany's own Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's equivalent of Britain's BBC. Especially (but not only) in the ...

A post by reader, commenter and sometime poster PaulL. I read many recent comments on the situation and negotiation in Ukraine, including one this morning from our host. I share the concerns about ...

DEBATES THIS YEAR AT THE CAPITOL. THIS PROPOSAL IS ABOUT GETTING EVERYONE ON THE SAME PAGE ABOUT HOW EXACTLY ETHNIC STUDIES ARE TAUGHT IN CALIFORNIA’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS, BUT THIS SPECIFIC BILL IS ...

She points to data from Germany showing that between 2017 and 2021, Afghan and Pakistani men were 16 times more likely to be implicated in rape than ethnic Germans. And in Sweden, more than half of ...

Young Germans leaned to the far ends of the political spectrum in Sunday’s election, with most backing Die Linke (The Left) and the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD), or Alternative ...

BERLIN — German voters head to the polls on Sunday but may not have a new government for some time. Arduous coalition negotiations tend to drag on for weeks if not months in Germany, spelling long ...

Germans headed to the polls in an election that could see the conservative bloc regain power, while the far-right AfD aims for its best performance yet. Listen to Story Germans vote in a pivotal ...

Germans were voting in a national election on Sunday that is expected to see Friedrich Merz’s conservatives regain power and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) score its best ever result as ...

That’s the mandate that all public high schools offer an ethnic studies course in the 2025-26 school year and require all students to complete a one-semester ethnic studies course for graduation ...

What Germans decide in national elections that are likely to produce a new chancellor will be of critical importance as Europe re-evaluates relations with the Trump administration. By Christopher F.

Germans began voting Sunday in a pivotal election, with the conservatives the strong favourites after a campaign rocked by a far-right surge and the dramatic return of US President Donald Trump ...

Berlin Culture Minister Joe Chialo of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) said that Germans were "hungry" for a functioning government in comments to DW. The CDU under Friedrich Merz has won ...