Naturally, there’s a German word that perfectly captures Angela Merkel’s dry ... has been underestimated her entire life, starting with her upbringing in East Germany. She went on to earn ...

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

Angela Merkel hired no fewer ... and social crisis. The early section of Freedom, about the first half of Merkel’s life in the GDR, offers a few clues as to her nascent political orientation.

Angela Merkel, the photo seemed to indicate, was the adult in the room. Yet when Merkel’s autobiography, Freedom, landed in late 2024, the reputation of one of modern Europe’s longest-lasting ...

Angela Merkel’s black limousine cruised to a stop here outside the Hotel Adlon, a storied building near the path of the wall that kept her locked in the East for the first 35 years of her life.