Tag: Sabine Beppler-Spahl

Germany Didn’t Melt Down—Its State Did

The heat wave exposed more than rising temperatures—it revealed decades of neglected infrastructure, political drift, and a government that struggles to perform its most basic functions.

The Fraud of Compromise

It was not compromise but the avoidance—even suppression—of critical debate that lay at the heart of the technocratic governing style for which Merkel and her successors stand.

Bärbel Bas and the SPD’s Contempt for Voters

The German labour minister’s attack on the country’ss supposedly “grey” and “brown” citizens exposes how far her party has drifted from the people it once claimed to represent.

God or No God in Our Constitution?

Rather than lifting us out of our current political trench warfare, the dispute over a reference to God in the Saarland constitutional preamble merely illuminates it.