Two women have thoroughly dominated the politics of their respective northern European countries in living memory. Beyond their gender, Angela Merkel and Margaret Thatcher are often lumped together as ...

A series of crime novels now adapted for TV imagines former German Chancellor Angela Merkel as a crime-solving detective. How might a former chancellor of Germany spend her retirement? The series ...

BERLIN — Little is known about how Germany’s former Chancellor Angela Merkel is spending her retirement, and that seems to be the way she likes it. Thanks to a German crime fiction series adapted for ...

In her memoir, the former German chancellor reflects on her political rise and defends her record as the outlook for her country turns grim. By Elisabeth Zerofsky Elisabeth Zerofsky is a contributing ...

Once upon a time Germany’s Angela Merkel was feted as “the chancellor of the free world.” Now a growing chorus of critics at home and abroad is chastising the former leader for everything from a ...

There are few world leaders who can claim to have worked closely with four U.S. presidents. But Chancellor Angela Merkel can. She is the only woman to ever lead Germany, and her 16-year tenure as ...

Ms. Amann is the deputy editor in chief of the German weekly Der Spiegel. She wrote from Berlin. On page 273 of her memoir, Angela Merkel admits she made a mistake. Ms. Merkel, the former German ...