Allison Meakem is an assistant editor at Foreign Policy. Prior to joining FP, she worked for the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin, reported for Deutsche Welle in Brussels, and studied language in Jordan and Turkey. She is a graduate of Brown University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in international relations.
Election campaign billboards show Olaf Scholz, chancellor candidate of the German Social Democratic Party, and Armin Laschet, chancellor candidate of the Christian Democratic Union, in Berlin on Sept. 21.