Tag: Germany

I've spent the past 12 days in Germany. It's been an eye opening experience. I've learned about pilsners, wurst and impeccable manners. I've learned that Germans...

Opponents of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open door refugee policy had a moment of vindication after a 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker stabbed four people...

Donald Trump’s immigration policy paints the world with a broad brush of distrust. He simplifies good and evil into black and white and alienates...

A heavily armed man wearing a mask entered a cinema in Viernheim, Germany and opened fire at about 3 p.m. local time. At least 25...

Some lawmakers are expressing concern that FBI committees meant to prevent Americans from joining radical extremist groups may be exploited by law enforcement officials...

Fearing the arrival of Middle Eastern refugees into one’s own country has become common in western civilization, perpetuating the hopelessness of those no longer...

When trauma strikes, we do not tend to look too closely at those who are brave enough to offer their help. A neo-Nazi politician learned...

Facebook's slow removal of racist hate speech may be even less appreciated than the social media giant thought.

Yesterday, the investigation of the fatal crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 took a ghastly turn. According to French prosecutors, first officer Andreas Lubitz locked...

On Tuesday morning, Germanwings Flight 9525, en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, slammed into the French Alps, killing all 150 people aboard. As if...

We've all made bets we thought we could either win easily or no one would take seriously, like "I bet a million bucks you...

The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights has filed a criminal complaint against U.S. torture program architects and members of the Bush Administration....

As a student of history, the worst dictator I ever read about was Hitler. The Holocaust torture and the concept of concentration camps was...

For decades now, the residents of Wunsiedel in Southern Germany have had to endure neo-Nazis marching through their town to visit the grave of...

1989 was a banner year. It was the year of the Tiananmen Square Massacre and of the Danish enacting the first Domestic Partner registry...

Today the government of Germany led by famous NSA phone hacking victim Angela Merkel got sweet revenge. In the country that invented the term...

    As many as five teams in soccer's World Cup could face sanctions from the sport's governing body, FIFA, for racist and homophobic behavior by...

I was browsing around on National Geographic a couple of days ago and I came across something that I actually did not know about...