On May 2, 2025, four days before parliamentary power was to change hands, outgoing Interior Minister Nancy Faeser from the Social Democratic Party announced that Germany’s domestic spy agency (the BfV ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – ...

Gersdorf’s derailed nomination to the Constitutional Court lays bare how digital outrage and partisan pressure are creeping ...

Germany’s February election produced an unprecedented result. The center-right Christian Democratic Union, led by Friedrich Merz, won the most votes and the largest number of seats in the Bundestag.

Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) plans to move forward with efforts to ban the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), with a motion expected to be passed at the close of its three-day ...

Lawmakers from Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) on Tuesday called on the government to join 28 other countries and sign a statement demanding an immediate end to the war in Gaza. "If ...

The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has adopted a code of conduct for its members, without changing its positions on ...

The Bundestag president's refusal to fly the rainbow flag atop the parliamentary building during Berlin's annual parade in ...

Supporters of the Alternative for Germany say they might quit voting if the party is outlawed. Some opponents are against ...

After being passed over for a ministerial post in Germany’s new grand-coalition government, it was clear that Saskia Esken’s time as a leading face of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) was ...

In the final years of the Weimar Republic, the German left was paralyzed by ideological divisions, by a failure to persuade ...

In recent times, the excesses of unregulated capitalism, even within a democratic society, has led to a widening gap between the rich and the poor, and the growth of social injustice.