Analysis & Opinion

BY Emer O’Toole On 6 December 1989, a misogynist who claimed he was “fighting feminism” shot dead 14 women, mostly engineering students, at Montréal’s École Polytechnique. I won’t use the murderer’s name. These men want us to use...

One year into his term, French President Emmanuel Macron has set out to reform his country and the EU. Now he’s learning that progress in Europe moves at a snail’s pace, says DW’s Barbara Wesel. He...

By Sam Leith Forget all that horse manure about sanctifying your relationship before God and in the presence of your loved ones. The real, practical value of the institution of marriage is that it’s a stress...

The United States and its allies have decided to give Russian President Vladimir Putin a taste of his own medicine. It seems that the Kremlin is unprepared, the Russian journalist Konstantin Eggert writes. It was anything...

 By Peter Beaumont Netanyahu built his career on promising to be a bulwark against Iran, but instead his failures are contributing to the escalation across the Middle East. Clever wheezes in the Middle East have the...

Donald Trump may not always be aware of the consequences of what he says and does. But the debate he has triggered with his comments on free and fair trade could be helpful to bring about...

By expelling Russian diplomats and making the Kremlin close its Seattle consulate, Donald Trump made the right choice and acted in line with Washington’s European allies. But this was a forced outlier, not the norm. On...

As Macedonia’s Special Prosecution, SJO, launches a criminal investigation into the heavily politicized and failed 2011 census – suspecting the country’s then leaders deliberately squandered millions of euros before scrapping it – the new head of...

As interior minister, Horst Seehofer is responsible for defending both Germany’s constitution and its religious freedom. However, his recent remarks show he may not understand those tasks, says Michel Friedman. Horst Seehofer did not say that...

The story of Western intervention in the seven-year Syrian civil war is one of missed opportunities. In responding to such conflicts, the West must learn from its past mistakes, says DW’s Kersten Knipp. The war in...