Barack Obama seems to be “at peace with himself,” mused a wistful Angela Merkel a few months after ... “There was a before and an after,” she tells us on the first page.

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

The German Democratic Republic, where Angela Merkel grew up, was neither democratic ... and by their example, the rest of us as well. To be welcoming. To be unafraid. To believe that great ...