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The German government's first report card
By Helmut K. Anheier - Mar 19,2022
BERLIN  —  The time-honoured American tradition of assessing a government’s first 100 days has found its way to Germany, where pundits are scoring the performance of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Ampelkoalition (“traffic light coalition”), comprising the Social Democrats (SP
What kind of ally is Germany?
By Helmut K. Anheier - Feb 09,2022
BERLIN — Last month, Germany promised to send 5,000 combat helmets to Ukraine — a pledge that supposedly demonstrated its solidarity with the country.
A more daring Germany
By Helmut K. Anheier - Dec 01,2021
BERLIN — After eight weeks of negotiations, Germany has a new government.
Germany's homegrown Q menace
By Helmut K. Anheier - Aug 11,2021
BERLIN — On August 1, 2020, about 30,000 people gathered in Berlin to protest against COVID-19 lockdown measures. Although the event, organised by the Stuttgart-based Querdenker movement, defied a ban on public gatherings, it was ultimately a relatively peaceful affair.
The West’s arrested social development
By Helmut K. Anheier - Nov 23,2019
BERLIN — After three decades of worsening economic inequality, advanced-country populations are angry, and they are taking their grievances to the ballot box or the streets.
One hundred years of ineptitude
By Helmut K. Anheier - Oct 04,2018
BERLIN — The global financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 was the greatest economic stress-test since the Great Depression, and the greatest challenge to social and political systems since World War II.
How to debate a populist
By Helmut K. Anheier - Jul 23,2018
BERLIN — In many Western countries today, social and political divisions have widened to the point that attempting to bridge them seems futile. Yet, one might have believed the same thing in the 1960s, an era at least as conflicted as ours.
Democratic resilience for a populist age
By Helmut K. Anheier - Jul 27,2017
The enemies of open, liberal societies have gained disconcerting influence in recent years, demonstrated most recently by the Polish government’s bid to place the country’s courts under political control.Although many democracies are plagued by serious maladies — such as electora

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