For two decades after its evolution from East Germany’s PDS, Die Linke (the Left) has weathered repeated crises. These have included the shrinking of its strongholds in the east and bitter splits, including most recently Sahra Wagenknecht’s 2023 breakaway. Yet, in 2025, it staged a comeback, winning new voters and reclaiming Bundestag seats. At the […]
Barring an electoral miracle this November, New York City Mayor Eric Adams will soon be gone, and we will all be poorer for it. He is a crook of an order not often glimpsed by the public in the modern era, not because no one’s crooked anymore, but because they usually have the good taste to carry out their corrupt dealings on a scale and at a level of secrecy that the public has come to expect.