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 ...

Researchers say a far-right social media campaign — that painted a respected law professor as extremist — caused the ...

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

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

Children dying of hunger, and attacks on people seeking aid—these violate everything protected by international humanitarian ...

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt is considering the nationwide deployment of security software developed by the controversial US tech firm Palantir. A spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry ...

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 ...

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 ...

But they are! "The Alternative for Deutschland (AfD), a pro-free market, anti-EU, anti-mass migration party, placed second in Germany’s recent parliamentary elections, earning nearly 21 percent of the ...

The party’s 10.3 million votes — 20.8 percent of the total — gave it 152 of 630 seats, by far its best showing since its founding in 2013.