Germany’s Hidden Crisis
Liberals praise modern Germany as Europe’s great success story. But behind the veneer of prosperity, resentment is building among ordinary Germans.
3 Articles by: Oliver Nachtwey
Oliver Nachtwey is a professor of sociology at the University of Basel. His 2016 bestseller on German class society, Germany’s Hidden Crisis, is to be published by Verso Books this fall.
Last Chance, SPD
Only a left-wing revival can save Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) from political extinction. But leaders like Andrea Nahles and Olaf Scholz are not up to the task.
The Merkel Effect
As German elections loom this Sunday, cracks may be starting to show in Merkel’s radical centrist reign.