GERMANY’S midsized manufacturers, collectively known as the Mittelstand, are often praised as a group for providing the backbone of the world’s fourth-largest economy. Individually, they are world ...
BERLIN—No one was really in charge the night of November 9, 1989. Thousands of Berliners had converged along the walls slicing through the center of the city, crowds with their own life force, lifting ...
“The howl of the cave man.” This is how a 1918 Los Angeles Times article described the music of Brahms and Bach. A year earlier the U.S. had declared war against Germany and waded into the tragedy of ...
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks during the Bundestag ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. On May 8, 1945, the war in Europe ended following Germany ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
“No,” Max Krawinkel replies mildly, each time I press him on the seductiveness of a potential new market for his company’s LED signs. “We only do them for gas stations.” Max Krawinkel, ...
ATHENS, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Ruediger Bolz has 350 students coming through the doors of his German language institute in central Athens each day - 20 percent up on a year go. Sign up here. The rush ...
Welcome to your eighth Friday of the corona quarantine. We know it seems like a long time, but it’s still been three weeks shorter than Kim Kardashian’s first marriage and two weeks shorter than ...
University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Impressionistic, subjective snapshots of complex societies are best avoided. And yet when you actually ...