Germany’s first female Chancellor, hailed as a leader of the free world, Merkel's departure from office was accompanied by ...

Angela Merkel served as chancellor of Germany for ... And so it should come as no surprise that her memoir, “Freedom,” is an achingly earnest account of her own extraordinary life, the ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Angela Merkel, after all, led Europe’s largest and richest state for 16 years, through the period when our post-Cold War decade of peace and hope was submerging under bankruptcy, pestilence and war.

Composed in her trademark calm delivery, but infused with little to capture the reader’s curiosity, Angela Merkel’s achievements ... as socialism without freedom. After German unification ...

The German Democratic Republic, where Angela Merkel grew up ... which gave Merkel a rare perspective on the lure of freedom and the risks people will take to taste it. Her political style was ...

Naturally, there’s a German word that perfectly captures Angela Merkel’s dry, unemotive rhetorical style: vorsichtigkeit, which means, roughly, prudence. The German chancellor, who at age 63 ...