
The AfD’s Western Breakthrough: How Germany’s Establishment Lost Control
The elections in North Rhine-Westphalia prove the catastrophic failure of establishment anti-populist strategy.

The elections in North Rhine-Westphalia prove the catastrophic failure of establishment anti-populist strategy.

A court pushback against the German agency’s overreach offers a symbolic win—but leaves the core threat of its existence untouched.

For far too long, the German mainstream promoted a sheepish, silencing creed of multiculturalism. But the times when this worked are over—even in Cologne.

In a potential test case for other regions, an AfD mayoral candidate was barred from the election for, among other things, quoting Tolkien and admiring Wagner.

Prioritizing short-term tactics over wisdom, Merz allowed himself to be swayed by shifting public opinion and the desire to appease his Social Democratic partners.

Post-war German education once stood for intellectual rigour. Today, feelings trump facts, ideology replaces enquiry, and political conformity stifles critical thinking.

How Germany’s Nazi past was politically weaponized to justify the 2015 refugee crisis

An honest assessment reveals that German mainstream politics has served as Erdoğan’s most effective accomplice for years.

Rather than fighting hard political fights at home, German politicians hide behind Brussels.

By bankrolling organizations that ordinary Germans would never voluntarily support, the state has created an artificial network of antisemitic quasi-lobbyists.