It was the birthplace of the liberal tradition, but also the incubator for Nazism – what can this historic city tell us about democracy?

From January through May 2024, as the centerpiece of its 2023–2024 season, Carnegie Hall presents Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice, an expansive citywide festival exploring one of ...

Modern Monetary Theory — the dream that we can spend quite a bit more money on such government programs as the Green New Deal, a Universal Basic Income, or similar agenda items merely by printing the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (R), her French counterparts Stephane Sejourne and Polish Radoslaw Sikorski walks ...

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In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the small Thuringian town of Weimar witnessed a remarkable cultural flowering, attracting many writers and scholars, notably Goethe and Schiller. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German, French and Polish Foreign Ministers Annalena Baerbock, Stefan Sejourné and Radosław Sikorski. Photo: France Diplomacy The ...

It is difficult not to fall in love with the young Sibylle von Jülich-Kleve-Berg, as painted by Europe’s premier portraitist at the time of her wedding, in 1526. A young, grey-eyed, pale-skinned ...

Equidistant from Houston and Austin, the partnership in Weimar is moving forward to create a Texas Enterprise Zone, that enables the town to pull from state funds and craft a first-of-its-kind, ...

Seven states seceded from the Union before James Buchanan left office in 1861, and within months of Lincoln’s inauguration, the forces of slavocracy directly threatened the capital with the ...