The breakdown of the German Scholz government could open the way for major change—but the CDU is too timid.

With its ‘firewall’ against the AfD, the CDU stubbornly clings to a losing left-wing coalition.

Although the plot to kill Hitler failed eighty years ago, the very fact that such an attempt was made continues to inspire. Dieter Stein tells the story of the German patriots behind the plot.

For the first time, a German police officer has died in an Islamist attack. Germany should pause to mourn the loss of a brave young man. And then, it is time to finally address the policy that is leading the country to the abyss.

The left-wing coalition government looks fatally wounded. But will a fractured Right replace it?

A look back at two years of Olaf Scholz’s disastrous government.

More than three decades after the end of the communist GDR, the successor to the former state party is being ripped apart by internal divisions.

FROM THE SUMMER 2023 PRINT EDITION: In Europe, populists were permanently marginalised—or so it was claimed by hostile observers. However, since pandemic policies ended, unresolved problems have returned to the forefront of political debate, giving a boost to right-wing populist parties everywhere.

In Europe, the eco-‘woke’ movement is nowhere as strong as it is in Berlin. But after a nepotism scandal was exposed, Germany’s Greens have gone on the defense.

Germans have become incapable or unwilling to defend our national interests. We no longer secure our own borders—we are too refined for that. We leave it to others, such as Poland and Hungary, and then lecture them when they do it.

For the first time in many decades, German politicians must learn to think, rather than feel— and to assert Germany’s vital national interests.