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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s war on woke in the Pentagon is serving as a model for Germany’s far right.

Germany’s far-right party hates immigration, and some of its leaders have a disturbing tendency to say things that sound Nazi ...

For all these reasons, we are rooting for the success of Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz. He is a 69-year-old lawyer ...

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has officially designated the country's main opposition party a right-wing extremist ...

Two narratives presenting opposing takes on the classification of Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an extremist far-right ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is weighing how to confront the Alternative for Germany party, which has been rising in the polls.

The Merz-led coalition government marks a shift to the right, pledging economic revival, stricter migration policies and a ...

A German spy agency deems the party a threat to the “democratic order,” but voters say otherwise—should they be silenced, too ...

The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society ...

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland called for fresh elections after Friedrich Merz's initial defeat in his bid to become the country's leader.

There's growing concern that German society is becoming increasingly polarized. The question of how to treat the AfD party threatens to further deepen the divide.