The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – ...

About The Author Dieter Stein Dieter Stein is a German journalist and publisher. He is the editor-in-chief of Berlin-based Junge Freiheit, Germany’s largest conservative weekly newspaper.

Democracies can fail. Current events have raised the question of how stable or fragile democratic structures are, and whether ...

Narrative: Germany’s democratic freedom protections are not unconditional Those asserting this frame consider that under the basis of Germany’s commonly referred to in English as militant/defensive ...

Germany's biggest opposition political party, the nationalist and anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party, has been designated "extremist" by the country's domestic intelligence agency ...

Germany's spy agency on Friday classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as "extremist", enabling it to step up monitoring of the country's biggest opposition party, which decried the ...

The ruling parties of German politics seem to have run out of ideas on how to sway voters away from the growing Alternative for Germany movement.

The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society tolerate the intolerant without sacrificing its own principles?

Allowing uncontrolled free speech when your enemies make use of it to advance your destruction is the epitome of idiocy. Are ...

In Berlin, Friedrich Merz was elected Germany’s chancellor, but not without a surprising setback. For the first time in Germany’s modern history, he lost the parliament’s initial vote and ...

Germany lists far-right AfD party as danger to democracy The move paves the way for the AfD to be potentially banned from politics.