Analy­sis 

Over the last 200 years, Lib­er­al­ism has been a stun­ning success story. It brought forward liberty and pros­per­ity for the many instead of priv­i­leges for the few. Yet, today liberal think­ing and...

A summary of the elec­tions in Bavaria, one of the major German states with more then 9 million voters.

Sandra Detzer und Sebas­t­ian Schaf­fer of the German Greens travel to Sweden where the right-wing-pop­ulist “Sweden Democ­rats” could win the elec­tion in Sep­tem­ber. But where danger is, rescue also grows:...

During the elec­tion cam­paign, appeal­ing to people’s anger and demo­niz­ing the oppo­nents is the most common strat­egy. Polit­i­cal pro­grams hardly matter. The polit­i­cal land­scape is highly frag­mented. In elec­tion polls,...

Karen Horn reminds us of for­got­ten, pio­neer­ing thinkers on liberty and high­lights the nec­es­sary con­tra­dic­tion within which a modern lib­er­al­ism exists: the tension between lim­it­ing state influ­ence and rec­og­niz­ing that influ­ence...