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May 27, 2022
Anna Altman
The German Fortunes Built on Nazi Plunder
Germany has never fully reckoned with the Nazi connections of some of its wealthiest families.
March 11, 2022
Leah Garden
Germany’s Fight to Replace Russian Gas With Renewables Has Huge Implications for Climate Change
While American oil and gas companies eye new opportunities in Europe, German lawmakers want to accelerate the transition to wind and solar. It won’t be easy.
March 4, 2022
Michael Tomasky
“It’s a New Story”: German Ambassador Emily Haber on Germany’s Break With Russia
Berlin’s top envoy to Washington discusses the reasons behind German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s bold response to Russia’s invasion in Ukraine—and what’s next.
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February 28, 2022
Zachary D. Carter
Putin’s Ukraine War Reveals Globalization’s Authoritarian Problem
Germany’s striking move over the weekend is an example the United States must follow. It’s time to end the neoliberal free trade regime.
February 22, 2022
Walter Shapiro
The Fragility of American and European Unity in the Face of Putin’s Aggression
Biden, like his German counterpart, is asking his country to sacrifice for the greater good of punishing Russia. Will British Prime Minister Boris Johnson do the same?
February 21, 2022
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Ted Cruz and the Rest of Them Should Shut Up About Munich Now
They are ignorant of the actual history. Besides which, what’s the opposite of Munich? Vietnam. Iraq. Were those really so preferable?
December 1, 2021
Magazine
Richard J. Evans
How Did Germans Cope With Defeat?
Monica Black’s new book, “A Demon-Haunted Land,” tells of the faith healers who prospered in post-war Germany.
May 28, 2021
Peter Bradshaw
Billy Wilder’s Escape From the Nightmare of Europe
Classic American movies “Some Like It Hot” and “Sunset Boulevard” emerged from the tumult and horror of interwar Germany.
May 19, 2021
Magazine
Lidija Haas
A Holocaust Documentary Interviews the Perpetrators
Luke Holland’s film “Final Account” makes a study of evasion, denial, and self-justification among living participants in Hitler’s Third Reich.
April 21, 2021
Adrian Daub
The Weird, Extremely German Origins of the Wirecard Scandal
How politicians, regulators, and the media fell for an obvious financial fraud
December 14, 2020
Nate Berg
The Man Who Wants to Take Down Bashar Al Assad
Wolfgang Kaleck is using the justice system to do what nation-states will not or cannot.
December 2, 2020
Edna Bonhomme
The Global Temptation to Keep Building Pipelines
“All of the above” is a bad energy strategy, but even some of the most forward-thinking countries can’t help falling for it.
September 11, 2020
Magazine
Adam Kirsch
The Problem With Redemption for Wagner
Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, and WEB Du Bois all drew on his work. Hitler was his most fateful disciple. Has the composer’s legacy been misunderstood?
May 20, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Is Baseball Safe?
Just because we may get a baseball season doesn’t mean we deserve one.
May 5, 2020
Magazine
Christopher Caldwell
Can the European Union Survive a Pandemic?
The coronavirus crisis has turned its member nations against each other.
March 2, 2020
Adrian Daub
A Whiff of Weimar
Is Germany in danger of repeating its Nazi past?
June 27, 2019
Magazine
Roy Scranton
How John Hersey Bore Witness
The author of
Hiroshima
showed the world the realities of American power.
June 19, 2019
Adrian Daub
Hulu’s
Das Boot
Gets Lost at Sea
The new remake of a World War II epic falls victim to the conventions of prestige TV.
June 11, 2019
Magazine
Daniel Immerwahr
All Over the Map
Jared Diamond struggles to understand a connected world.
May 23, 2019
David Adler
Will the Radical Right Break the EU?
In the race for the European Parliament, politics are becoming transnational—and threatening the union from within.
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