Merkel’s Refugee Policy Is Political Calculus, Not Humanitarian Generosity
In the immediate wake of the massacres in Paris last Friday, the finance minister for the German state of Bavaria, Markus Söder, feverishly called for an end to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s so-called...
View ArticleBerlin’s Radical Housing Activists Aren’t Afraid of Expropriations
In early March, Germany’s largest tabloid, Bild, proclaimed: “A specter is haunting Germany, the specter of expropriation.” The exaggeration-prone paper was not entirely wrong: In recent months, few...
View ArticleGermany’s Big Green Mood Lacks Radicalism
On a Monday night in August, Robert Habeck sat on a train to Berlin from the eastern German city of Cottbus, attempting to eat a falafel sandwich. The yellow sauce was dripping, first on the floor,...
View ArticleWhen There’s a Communist Running City Hall
To get an idea of how Elke Kahr understands her job, you only have to wait at her office. When I visited the communist mayor of the Austrian city of Graz one morning in early February, her two...
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