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Alexander Gauland and Alice Weidel, the Alternative for Germany party’s leading politicians, in Berlin on Wednesday. Credit Gregor Fischer/Deutsche Presse-Agentur, via Associated Press

Return of the German Volk

by Roger Cohen | Oct 4, 2017 | Opinion

BERLIN— The Volk is back in its tribal sense. That was the message of Alexander Gauland, a leading politician of the extremist Alternative for Germany (or AfD) party, when he vowed on election night to “take back our country and our Volk!” Volk means people. Sure it...

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Palestinians cross an Israeli checkpoint in Bethlehem, in the West Bank, on Friday. Credit Mussa Issa Qawasma/Reuters

Israel-Palestine From Both Sides of the Mirror

by Roger Cohen | Jun 17, 2017 | Opinion

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Israeli victory in the 1967 war and of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. The jubilation of military victory, quicker and more comprehensive than seemed possible, has long since subsided into a grinding status quo: the...

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Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Emmanuel Macron of France in Berlin on Monday. Credit Guido Bergmann/Bundesregierung, via Reuters

A New Yalta and the Revival of Europe

by Roger Cohen | May 29, 2017 | Opinion

PARIS — In the end the French election turned on the most unlikely of subjects: Europe. Yes, the ugly European duckling of 2016 politics — rejected by Britain, mocked by President Trump — ushered Emmanuel Macron into the Élysée Palace as France’s youngest president....

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President-elect Emmanuel Macron of France waving to supporters on Sunday. Credit Patrick Kovarik/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Macron and the Revival of Europe

by Roger Cohen | May 12, 2017 | Opinion

It’s not just that Emmanuel Macron won and will become, at the age of 39, France’s youngest president. It’s not merely that he defeated, in Marine Le Pen, the forces of xenophobic nationalism exploited by President Donald Trump. It’s that he won with a bold stand for...

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Emmanuel Macron, presidential candidate, at a campaign event in March. Credit Pascal Rossignol/Reuters

France in the End of Days

by Roger Cohen | Apr 16, 2017 | Opinion

Paris — France seems ready to vent the slow-ripening anger in an election that could see the extreme right return to power for the first time since the 1940s and Europe revert to a turbulence not seen since that epoch. If Marine Le Pen of the National Front wins, she...