Obama: Filling a Vacuum in Berlin
Norman Birnbaum : Barack Obama
A nation whose citizens have been largely turned off to politics held Barack Obama in a fervent embrace, viewing America once again as a place of new possibilities.
2008
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Green Days
Anson Rabinbach : Foreign Leaders & Political Figures
The biography of Joschka Fischer tells the story of postwar Germany.
2007
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German GWOT Misfire
The government is using antiterrorist laws to suppress political dissent.
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I'm Not the Man I Used to Be
The reasons for Günter Grass's silence about his membership in the Waffen SS remain safely hidden in his new memoir.
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Why It Happened the Way It Did
Richard J. Evans : Non-Fiction
Ian Kershaw's latest work analyzes ten decisions that shaped the outcome of World War II.
2006
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Faraway, So Close
In his memoir Five Germanys I Have Known, Fritz Stern revisits his family's past and finds that he has never been quite at home.
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War Criminals, Beware
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : International Criminal Court/War Crimes Tribunals
Human rights advocates are pressing German courts to prosecute Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales and other Bush Administration officials for war crimes. They just might succeed.
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The Strange Silence of Günter Grass
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.
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The Red Flag, From Berlin to West Bengal
The left may be a dusty relic in Germany, but in the Indian state of Kerala, it has made formidable gains on a platform of reform and smart economic policies.
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Green Power
The Green Party fell from power in recent German elections, but Greens continue to be the party to watch, a progressive influence on the world's third-largest economy.
2005
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The War of the Liberals
Stephen Holmes : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Power and the Idealists clings to the notion that the Iraq War was waged for humanitarian ideals, while At the Point of a Gun documents the inner torment of humanitarian interventionists who, without forgetting Rwanda and Bosnia, have gazed into the Iraqi abyss.
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Fighting the Abyss
Noah Isenberg : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
Although The Aesthetics of Resistance delves into leftist notions of art and class struggle, this account of an anti-Nazi youth group in Germany seems outdated now.
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Crime and Punishment
Mark M. Anderson : Wars Abroad
A recent surge of novels and memoirs reveals for the first time the ways in which Germans suffered from Allied "total war" strategy during World War II.
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Sturm und Drang
Norman Birnbaum : Gerhard Schroeder
As political parties in Germany dance toward a coalition following the stalemated elections, the country is in for a turbulent month--and new elections are a serious option.
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Collective Memory and the Holocaust
Ross Benjamin : Judaism & Jews
An interview with Peter Eisenman, architect of Berlin's new Holocaust memorial.
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Nationalism's Psychotic Side
Robert Scheer : Racism & Discrimination
Even decent people can be swept along by barbarism when a nation gets sick.
2004
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German Greens and Pax Europa
Joschka Fischer envisions a European alternative to American hegemony.
2003
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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