Decades of social cuts by the SPD, the Greens and the Left Party, supported by the trade unions, have allowed the AfD to grow ...

While the newest season of Nathan Fielder’s docu-comedy The Rehearsal aims to fix an epidemic of airplane crashes, episode ...

The efficient way of polling procedures as Germany adopts can also be replicated in Nepal. The economic disruptions, partly ...

Centrist parties seek to impose tighter controls on public debate, all in the name of democracy.

In October 2023, the liberal Civic Platform (PO) of Donald Tusk won the parliamentary elections against the ...

Ruth Bender was a correspondent based in Berlin who covered a broad range of topics from business over politics to social issues for The Wall Street Journal.

Carnivals in Germany have long satirized the powerful. Calls to keep politics out of the festivities are now being used to ...

A recent survey indicates that nearly half of the voters—46%—believe that the AfD should be treated as any other legitimate party in the political arena. This sentiment is echoed across various voter ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz and his CDU won the German election— yet his personal popularity is low and getting ...

A fumbled trophy, Greenland trip and a tense visit with the president of Ukraine. These moments define JD Vance's first days ...

Semitism, far-right parties now often portray themselves as defenders of Jews, but critics accuse them of shifting their ...

The Kennedy-era program to protect workers displaced by foreign competition was always too miserly to make much of a ...