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Germany’s Unkept Promise

George E. Bogden

February 27, 2023

A photo of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz giving a speech

How Germany Avoided Its Own ‘Lost Cause’ Movement

March 2023 Issue

Photo of December 2022 magazine open to the article "Monuments to the Unthinkable"

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What Is Contrition Without Reparation?

November 15, 2022

A photo of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site on an overcast day.

“Monuments to the Unthinkable”––In Cover Story, Clint Smith Reports from Germany on What the U.S. Can Learn about Atonement

November 14, 2022

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Germany Is Arguing With Itself Over Ukraine

October 20, 2022

German armed forces stand at ease in front of a battle tank.

Europe’s Sleeping Giant Awakens

March 1, 2022

An illustration of the German chancellor in front of the colors of the German flag

The West’s Nuclear Mistake

December 8, 2021

Nuclear cooling towers in the distance

Jen Psaki’s Rapid-Testing Gaffe Is Not as Simple as It Seems

December 7, 2021

Jen Psaki speaking from a White House podium

Four Measures That Are Helping Germany Beat COVID

October 26, 2021

Germans wearing FFP2 masks indoors

How Clinton’s ‘Basket of Deplorables’ Taught Germany a Lesson

September 27, 2021

What Germany Says About Far-Right Politics

September 23, 2021

Leaders of the AfD huddle together

The World Won’t Miss Angela Merkel

September 21, 2021

Angela Merkel stares out a car window.

Germany Found a Way to Reduce Polarization. Could It Work in the U.S.?

July 30, 2021

Illustration of an angry man whose face is obscured by a television displaying the German flag

The Secret to Germany’s COVID-19 Success: Angela Merkel Is a Scientist

April 20, 2020

Angela Merkel looks through a microscope while wearing a white lab coat.

A Far-Right Warning From Germany

February 19, 2020

Angela Merkel sits in the Chancellery in Berlin for a meeting.

A Synagogue Attack on the Holiest Day of the Year

October 9, 2019

Police officers at the site of the Halle shooting

There Are No Nostalgic Nazi Memorials

September 14, 2019

Holocaust survivor Marga Spiegel at Holocaust memorial site

The Small-Town Disputes That Fuel Germany’s Far Right

Emily Schultheis

September 2, 2019

Two AfD supporters wearing the party's vests sit in front of an AfD sign.

Germany’s Future Is Being Decided on the Left, Not the Far Right

August 28, 2019

Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock, the German Greens leaders, at a news conference in Berlin

Where Veterans Aren’t Thanked for Their Service

August 6, 2019

Ranks of German soldiers in military camouflage face the camera with sober expressions.

The Chinese Influence Effort Hiding in Plain Sight

Didi Kirsten Tatlow

July 12, 2019

an illustration of Xi Jinping framed by a key hole

An Unlikely Solution to Germany's East-West Divide

Sumi Somaskanda

June 30, 2019

West Berliners help East Germans over the Berlin Wall.

The Triumph of German Democracy

May 8, 2019

Articles of Germany's Basic Law (Grundgesetz), including article 5, which guarantees freedom of expression, the arts, and the press, stand illuminated on a glass wall in Berlin.

Lessons for Survival

Walter Lippmann

February 1951 Issue

A black and white photograph of a man setting up an American flag on a New York City sidewalk in 1950

In My Defense

October 1944 Issue

What Is German?

The Joseph Novels

February 1943 Issue

How to Win the Peace

February 1942 Issue