If someone had said in 1988 that a woman who grew up under communism would lead a reunited Germany before long, few would have believed it. Now it’s hard to imagine Germany and Europe without Angela ...

Germany's ex-chancellor Helmut Kohl liked to call her "Das Mädchen"—the girl. That was in 1991, when Angela Merkel was a shy and inexperienced junior minister in Kohl's cabinet. Last week Merkel ...

“Mädchen in Uniform,” a classic account of forbidden love in a girl’s boarding school, is both an expression of anti-fascism and a lesbian coming-out story. By J. Hoberman One of the most popular ...