Nation Topics - Helmut Kohl | The Nation

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

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

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

The biography of Joschka Fischer tells the story of postwar Germany.

By concealing for a near-lifetime that he had served in the Waffen SS, literary giant Günter Grass treated himself with an indulgence he did not hesitate to deem a moral defect in others. And for that, we are all losers.

Coming as it did in the final weeks of a precarious re-election
campaign, incumbent German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's resolute
"No" to German participation in any US-led war on Iraq was

Immigrant workers fuel the ecomony, but still they're treated with suspicion.

(With apologies, under the table, to Mother Goose)

Europe, you are rightly told, is swinging to the left. In thirteen of
the fifteen countries making up the European Union, the Social Democrats
are now in office.

Recently, The Economist took out a full-page advertisement in the Financial Times of London boasting that it had predicted the coal miners'
strike six years ago.