The New German Warfare State
Boundless militarization has become the key project of Germany and the European Union to halt their decline.
Jeffrey Sachs: An Open Letter to Chancellor Friedrich Merz: Security Is Indivisible — and History Matters
Germany has a duty to approach this moment with historical seriousness and honesty. On that score, recent rhetoric and policy choices fall dangerously short.
Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 4: Wanderers and Seekers
Editor’s note: Earlier versions of this story reported Germany’s shock when Friedrich Merz initially failed to win sufficient Bundestag votes to assume office. After intense negotiations, he won back the…
Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 3: A Culture of Submission
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost This is the third of four reports on Germany in crisis. Part 1 of this series is here and Part 2 here. BERLIN—…
Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 2: A Short History of Exploding Gas Pipelines
In the postwar era this ambiguity, this state of “in between,” is best understood not as Germany’s burden but its great gift, and it is with this gift it could…
Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 1 —The Lost Man of Europe
Of the many things said as the results of Germany’s national elections arrived on Sunday evening, Feb. 23, the most remarkable to me was the exclamation of the Federal Republic’s…
Musk-Backed AfD Loses in Germany, But Party’s Growth Seen as ‘Warning’ to West
By Julia Conley / Common Dreams The conservative Christian Democrats party in Germany was the winner of the country’s elections on Sunday, with leader Friedrich Merz expected to be the…