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A postwar German novelist’s complicated legacy.

Amid economic stagnation, polls show increasing skepticism about the competence of German elites. Can a resurgent Green Party bring political renewal?

With cries for “democracy” and “freedom” sweeping Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere, the Bush-era’s now-infamous “democracy agenda” is nowhere in sight.

Timothy Garton Ash is a fine writer of "analytic reportage," but his work has lately displayed symptoms of columnitis.

An education begun in the shadow of the Brandenburg Gate.

The past was one single catastrophe to the Baader-Meinhof Gang, and acts of violence the only perceived exit.

Gerhard Richter's abstract paintings are miraculously controlled accidents.

The commemorations marking the fall of the Wall were joyous. But divisions still plague unified Germany.

The story of communism's rise and fall in Eastern Europe is a tale of two revolutions.

A wide-ranging Nation interview with the former Soviet president.