Democracies can fail. Current events have raised the question of how stable or fragile democratic structures are, and whether ...

Is Democracy a Failure? Share full article. March 14, 1861. ... We have not been like Rome of old -- we are almost like Germany, with her thirty tyrants and her thirty thousand local hatreds.

German Democracy Is in Peril. The mainstream parties aim to ban AfD for the “crime” of believing that Germans exist and deserve a homeland. Dieter Stein . May 7, 2025 12:03 AM.

Narrative: Germany’s democratic freedom protections are not unconditional. Those asserting this frame consider that under the basis of Germany’s commonly referred to in English as militant/defensive ...

Isaac Chotiner interviews Hans Kundnani, an expert on German politics, about the country’s looming elections, the void left by Angela Merkel, and a rising far right.

The German rightist party’s seeming failure to reform itself suggests instead a regression with dark historical echoes. ... On that head, Ms. Weidel has sought to underscore “the irony of an effort to ...

Democracy, liberalism and ... The crisis of democracy: Strongmen in U.S., world rise from failure of sociability | Opinion By Emre Balikci ... 2025 in Halle, Germany..

I framed the failure of the first German democracy in temporal terms. The Weimar Republic, which existed from 1919 until 1933, lasted less than 13 years, barely a half generation, ...