Angela Merkel was the longest-serving chancellor ... In her book, she describes childhood under the East German (GDR) dictatorship as "a life constantly on the edge. No matter how carefree a ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Angela Merkel’s black limousine cruised to a stop ... perhaps indulging her childhood dream of traveling through the US. She isn’t explicitly running for re-election as a German version ...

Naturally, there’s a German word that perfectly captures Angela Merkel’s dry, unemotive rhetorical style: vorsichtigkeit, which means, roughly, prudence. The German chancellor, who at age 63 ...

The German Democratic Republic, where Angela Merkel grew up, was neither democratic nor a republic; it was an Orwellian horror show, where the Iron Curtain found literal expression in the form of ...