Victor Grossman
LATEST ARTICLES BY Victor Grossman
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In Germany, the Pirates making waves
May 2, 2012Germany's energetic young party, the Pirates, held its party congress last weekend in the northern town of Neumünster. The media overflowed with reports, almost uniformly friendly.
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Germany aggrieved about Günter Grass
April 24, 2012Günter Grass, a Nobel Literature Prize winner, causes anger and excitement with his poem "What Must Be Said". And the subject matter is war and peace.
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All hail the (German) chief
March 19, 2012It's hard to decide: which article on Germany's new president, East Germany's (the former German Democratic Republic's) pastor Joachim Gauck, was more misleading.
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Was Islamophobia to blame for the resignation of Germany’s president?
February 21, 2012President Christian Wulff resigns! This has been in the making since December, so it was no surprise but rather a drawn out misery.
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Left or right – where’s the threat?
February 6, 2012The "crime" of those on the left, aside from occasional rocks or bottles thrown at Nazis, was a failure to support the "basic libertarian democratic order."
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Who’s afraid of the big bad Wulff?
January 18, 2012BERLIN - Americans wonder who will be president next January; Germans are still uncertain who will live in Berlin's presidential mansion this February.
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Tough on euros, weak on Nazis
December 14, 2011Picking one's way through the financial gobbledygook, two key words emerged: "Austerity" was one, "discipline" the other.
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The Left Party still relevant in Germany
October 28, 2011The Left dropped to about half its 12 percent high; it was weakened or defeated in seven elections in 2011.
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