Since its founding, the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has stood in opposition. In 2026, it hopes to win state-level governing power and perhaps more.

Pensions, migration and conscription will continue to dominate domestic politics in Germany this year. Above all, the focus will be on how the far-right AfD fares in upcoming state elections in the ...

A quarter century ago, German political scientist Harald Müller observed that “the very basic question of whether … Germany should rethink its renunciation of nuclear weapons has a very odd ...

Germany’s centrist establishment has long scorned the far left, but it is increasingly reliant on leftists to outmaneuver the far right in crucial votes in Parliament. By Clay Risen Reporting from ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The recent electoral surge of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which secured 20.8 percent in February's snap election and ...

Germany’s parliament has approved a controversial 2026 federal budget that dramatically increases public spending while projecting massive fiscal deficits over the coming years. The Bundestag passed ...

Michelle Lynn Kahn has received funding from the National Humanities Center, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, American Historical Association, American Jewish Archives, and Alexander von ...

Three Leopard 2A6 main battle tanks and a Puma infantry fighting vehicle are seen during a German military exercise, in Munster, Germany, Dec. 6, 2018 (DPA photo by Philipp Schulze AP Images). Click ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz shows the 2 Euro commemorative coin 'Konrad Adenauer' to the cameras during the cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026.