Germany

If it looks like Berlin is colluding with Moscow, that’s because it is.

Torn between mending ties with Germany or Republicans in Congress, the Biden administration takes a softer line on Nord Stream 2 than some lawmakers expected.

The left is relativizing the past, the far-right is insisting on its uniqueness, and the country’s historical culture is cracking from within.

Some policies may be worth keeping, but Trump’s handling of allies and withdrawals from conflict zones are not among them.

The energy transition of Europe’s biggest economy is running up against questions with no easy answers.

The German philosopher was one of the 20th century’s most influential public intellectuals. But 21st-century politics has cut him adrift.

Hitler’s first coup attempt failed—but German democracy broke down anyway. Here’s how the United States can avoid the same fate.

German politicians are obsessed with earning Ph.D.s—but plagiarism scandals tend to catch up to them and derail careers.

Philosopher Susan Neiman explains what the United States can learn from postwar Germany.

Even the arrival of a pro-European U.S. administration can’t paper over unmistakable signs of trans-Atlantic trouble.

Angela Merkel’s most likely successor is promising continuity with her style of politics—but that may not be up to him.

The three men standing to take over as chair of the CDU will take the party in strikingly different directions.

Europe’s year-end investment deal with Beijing is a clear window into the German chancellor’s foreign-policy worldview.

Open-source investigations enable officials and lawmakers to discuss Russian skullduggery without exposing sources and methods of U.S. intelligence

Missiles remotely fired with the assistance of a U.S. base on German soil killed my family in Yemen, but neither German nor U.S. courts are willing to hold anyone accountable.

The U.K.’s quick approval of the Pfizer vaccine means some Britons will get shots starting next week—but in the rest of the world, it’s going to take a while for regular people to get inoculated.

Major world leaders are reaching out to the U.S. president-elect as Pompeo claims there will be a “smooth transition to a second Trump administration.”