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Elon Has Appointed Himself King of the World

January 10, 2025

An image of Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, the head of Germany's far-right AfD party

Why Poor American Kids Are So Likely to Become Poor Adults

January 8, 2025

A photo-illustration of two squares of cardboard with torn edges, the one on the left showing a drawing of a child on it and the one on the write with a drawing of an adult on it.

The Century-Old Book With a Message for This Season

November 8, 2024

Davos, Dorfli and Seehorn, in winter, Grisons, Switzerland

The Magic Mountain Saved My Life

December 2024 Issue

A grid of white lines over squares of two interlaced black-and-white photos, a portrait of Thomas Mann and a picture of a snowy mountain slope

A ‘Crazy’ Idea for Treating Autoimmune Diseases Might Actually Work

November 4, 2024

CAR-T cells on a blue background and a black-and-white photo of a man's face with characteristic lupus rash

War Is Coming. Will Our Next President Be Ready?

Frederick Kempe

October 22, 2024

A black-and-white photomontage of Donald Trump on the left and Kamala Harris on the right.

The Case Against Pessimism

October 20, 2024

Left: Russian troops on the offensive in Poland in 1945. Right: Ukrainian troops patrol at the front line outside in 2022.

Germany’s Zombie Government Is Fueling the Far Right

March 20, 2024

A black-and-white photo of protesters holding up lights outside the Reichstag building

What Happens Where Free Speech Is Unprotected

January 3, 2024

An illustration of a censorious finger superimposed on the figure of a man

Why Vladimir Putin Is Embracing Germany’s Far Right

Liana Fix and Caroline Kapp

October 31, 2023

vladimir putin in front of an AFD protest image

Can Germany Resist the Trump Disease?

October 25, 2023

Silhouette of Wagenknecht speaking

Germany Is No Longer Exceptional

July 22, 2023

A small german flag in a line of tall flagpoles

Radio Atlantic: How Germany Remembers the Holocaust

Clint Smith, Caitlin Dickerson, and A.C. Valdez

March 30, 2023

A worker at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe cleans the memorial grounds.

Germany’s Unkept Promise

George E. Bogden

February 27, 2023

A photo of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz giving a speech

How Germany Avoided Its Own ‘Lost Cause’ Movement

March 2023 Issue

Photo of December 2022 magazine open to the article "Monuments to the Unthinkable"

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What Is Contrition Without Reparation?

November 15, 2022

A photo of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site on an overcast day.

“Monuments to the Unthinkable”––In Cover Story, Clint Smith Reports from Germany on What the U.S. Can Learn about Atonement

November 14, 2022

The Atlantic's December 2022 Cover

Germany Is Arguing With Itself Over Ukraine

October 20, 2022

German armed forces stand at ease in front of a battle tank.

Europe’s Sleeping Giant Awakens

March 1, 2022

An illustration of the German chancellor in front of the colors of the German flag

The West’s Nuclear Mistake

December 8, 2021

Nuclear cooling towers in the distance

Jen Psaki’s Rapid-Testing Gaffe Is Not as Simple as It Seems

December 7, 2021

Jen Psaki speaking from a White House podium

Four Measures That Are Helping Germany Beat COVID

October 26, 2021

Germans wearing FFP2 masks indoors

How Clinton’s ‘Basket of Deplorables’ Taught Germany a Lesson

September 27, 2021

What Germany Says About Far-Right Politics

September 23, 2021

Leaders of the AfD huddle together

The World Won’t Miss Angela Merkel

September 21, 2021

Angela Merkel stares out a car window.

Germany Found a Way to Reduce Polarization. Could It Work in the U.S.?

July 30, 2021

Illustration of an angry man whose face is obscured by a television displaying the German flag

The Secret to Germany’s COVID-19 Success: Angela Merkel Is a Scientist

April 20, 2020

Angela Merkel looks through a microscope while wearing a white lab coat.

A Far-Right Warning From Germany

February 19, 2020

Angela Merkel sits in the Chancellery in Berlin for a meeting.

A Synagogue Attack on the Holiest Day of the Year

October 9, 2019

Police officers at the site of the Halle shooting

There Are No Nostalgic Nazi Memorials

September 14, 2019

Holocaust survivor Marga Spiegel at Holocaust memorial site

The Small-Town Disputes That Fuel Germany’s Far Right

Emily Schultheis

September 2, 2019

Two AfD supporters wearing the party's vests sit in front of an AfD sign.

Germany’s Future Is Being Decided on the Left, Not the Far Right

August 28, 2019

Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock, the German Greens leaders, at a news conference in Berlin

Where Veterans Aren’t Thanked for Their Service

August 6, 2019

Ranks of German soldiers in military camouflage face the camera with sober expressions.

The Chinese Influence Effort Hiding in Plain Sight

Didi Kirsten Tatlow

July 12, 2019

an illustration of Xi Jinping framed by a key hole

An Unlikely Solution to Germany's East-West Divide

Sumi Somaskanda

June 30, 2019

West Berliners help East Germans over the Berlin Wall.

The Triumph of German Democracy

May 8, 2019

Articles of Germany's Basic Law (Grundgesetz), including article 5, which guarantees freedom of expression, the arts, and the press, stand illuminated on a glass wall in Berlin.