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Mr. Merz, Tear Down This Firewall
The evening before the German parliamentary elections, I saw a young man drop his empty beverage can on the platform before entering a regional train. I asked him why...

Germany Needs to Bury Hitler
On February 14, speaking at the Munich Security Conference, the vice president of the United States warned the attendees of threats to Europe’s well-being. The peril does not come...
The Vanity of Guilt
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, no political question has so deeply divided Europe, and especially Germany, as that of mass migration from Africa and the Near East....