My piece for Politico on Germany’s battle against far-right extremism in its military as German leaders confront a disturbing scenario: That they've been unwittingly arming and training the very Nazis their republic was designed to stand against. politico.eu/article/german…

For The New York Review of Books I wrote about Germany's efforts to integrate the 1.2 million migrants who arrived in 2015/2016. Despite the rise of the far right, the influx has cemented the country's transformation into a more pluralistic, cosmopolitan and humane society. nybooks.com/articles/2021/…

Germany under Merkel has often been held up as a defender of liberal democratic values around the world. The reality, however, is more complicated. I had some thoughts on this in an essay I wrote for Persuasion: persuasion.community/p/no-change-pl…

For anyone interested in reading some background on the recent violence in Belfast, I’m re-upping this piece I wrote at the end of 2019 about how Brexit is aggravating sectarian tensions in Northern Ireland: nytimes.com/2019/12/30/mag…

For a long time, the question was: How could the vanquished Germans celebrate their World War II surrender? Now, writes James Angelos, Germans are increasingly grappling with a thornier question: How could they not? . nyti.ms/3haHrIE

My essay for New York Times Opinion about why Victory in Europe Day —the May 8 anniversary of Nazi Germany’s capitulation —is increasingly commemorated as a “Day of Liberation” in Germany, and how, despite good intentions, this could contribute to historical amnesia. nytimes.com/2021/05/08/opi…

My piece for Politico on Germany’s hugely-popular Wahl-O-Mat, a “voting advice application” that puts concrete policies and issues above intangible factors like candidate “likability.” Question is whether it works. politico.eu/article/german…

This is the constituency map Germans are waking up to. SPD dominance in the north, conservatives in the industrial south, dots of Green in some cities, and a very AfD-blue Saxony after the CDU slumped there. zeit.de/politik/deutsc…

Through the horror I can’t stop thinking about the sheer idiocy. Putin is creating & reinforcing all the things he is most scared of that were once phantom. A Ukraine that’s alien to Russia and despises it, and a massive reinvigoration of NATO and huge anti-Russian resolve.

Ukrainian soldiers help a fleeing family crossing the Irpin river in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

This is insane. How can this be tenable for Russia. mobile.twitter.com/Mylovanov/stat…

Ukraine: Apparent War Crimes in Russia-Controlled Areas trib.al/lhnHVBP

So many stories like this: woman writes me to say her brother was detained by Russian soldiers at home in village outside Kyiv. Others saw him, hands tied, led at gun point to building Russians used as base. Four days later his body was found by side of the road, shot in back.

“We need to know how to infect them with our ideology,” a senior Kremlin official recently told teachers. “Our ideological work is aimed at changing consciousness.” On the Kremlin’s plan to reprogram society through Russia’s 40,000 schools: nytimes.com/2022/07/16/wor…

Fight breaks out in the city of Omsk among men who’ve been drafted and local police forcing them onto buses. Draftees called on the police to come die with them in the trenches. 📹 Omsk Civil Association

For The New York Review of Books I wrote about the new Historikerstreit -- and how a growing awareness of Germany's colonial crimes has spurred a heated debate about their place in Germany's culture of remembrance and whether there are historical connections to the Holocaust nybooks.com/articles/2023/…

News that my friend, colleague, and thoroughly professional reporter Evan Gershkovich has been detained while doing his job in Russia. Hope and trust he’ll be released imminently. Goes w/out saying, journalism is not a crime. mobile.twitter.com/Sota_Vision/st…

Surreal and maddening to see our friend in a glass cage in a Moscow courtroom. An innocent man—decent, kind, and honest—arrested for doing his job. Every day he spends in jail is an outrage. x.com/PjotrSauer/sta…

🎧This week on Brussels Sprouts🎧 🇩🇪James Angelos and Jeff Rathke join Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss Germany's historic election and AfD's best-ever results. cnas.org/publications/p…