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“Festive atmosphere – celebrations largely peaceful.” Such was the German police’s summary of New Year’s Eve in Cologne on the morning of...

Since January, an estimated 710,000 migrants and refugees have entered the European Union. This number is about two and a half times the...

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“War” is a loaded term in Germany. It comes as no surprise, then, that ever since the end of World War II, German voters have been...

The 7,000 illuminated balloons winding through Berlin this November 9 marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Despite...

Since four score and seven years ago, political rhetoric has been both a political tool and a metric by which we assess our leaders. Word...

Following the Fukushima disaster in Japan, Germany ambitiously vowed to shut down all its nuclear capacity in favor of renewable energy...

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How does Germany’s prohibition of homeschooling threaten the civil liberties of American evangelicals? The short answer is: it doesn’t....

Sometimes, thinking about policy in the European Union (EU) is the same as thinking about German political strategy. The line between the...

It began in a small park in Istanbul and very well might end in Brussels. Turkey’s protestors are now nearly silent after a month of...

In my last eurocrisis rant I argued three changes were necessary for the EU to begin crawling its way out of the hole it has dug itself...

My tour of European austerity’s next stop is Germany. However, I have criticized austerity without putting it into context. I have simply...