A journalist for Berlin newspaper Tagesspiegel said on Facebook he was tracked down and physically attacked on the street by right wing thugs in Berlin on Friday after writing a column about xenophobia.
As the start of Beate Zschäpe's trial made her the globally famous face of Germany's neo-Nazis, <b>Der Tagesspiegel's Andrea Dernbach</b> says the problem is so much bigger than one person, and even ten murders.
Members of The Left party are boycotting the pope's speech to the German parliament during an official visit to Berlin later this month. For Der Tagesspiegel’s Malte Lehming, leftist attitudes toward Catholicism are no different from right-wing populist bigotry against Islam.
Norway’s mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik wanted the opposite of freedom. That's why open societies including Germany must resist xenophobia and isolationism in the face of terror. A commentary by Der Tagesspiegel’s Gerd Appenzeller.
Now that Germany have been tossed out of the World Cup and the black, red and gold flags are being packed away, we'll see whether women's football has really caught on, writes Robert Ide from Der Tagesspiegel.
Consigned to minor role at last week’s G8 summit, the economic power Germany is in danger of being sidelined politically, argues Gerd Appenzeller from Der Tagesspiegel.
Are Germans right to criticize the joyous reaction to the killing of Osama bin Laden? Der Tagesspiegel’s Moritz Schuller detects a misplaced whiff of condescension.
Is it no longer safe to use public transport in Germany? Recent attacks in Berlin go hand in hand with the city’s decaying infrastructure, argues Werner van Bebber from Der Tagesspiegel.
Germans love free thinkers, but they're apparently not so hot on free speech. The reactions to the Giffords shooting in Arizona have revived the spectre of anti-Americanism in Germany, argues Malte Lehming from Der Tagesspiegel.
Success breeds resentment – so it's little wonder other countries including the United States are jealous of Germany's booming economy. But even Germans don't seem to like it when things are going well, says Malte Lehming from Der Tagesspiegel.
The opponents of Bavaria’s strict smoking ban have lost, just like most people whose arguments are based on tradition rather than reason, argues <b>Malte Lehming</b> from <b>Der Tagesspiegel</b>.
Knowing Horst Köhler served Germany more as an administrator than a visionary tempers any sorrow over his surprise resignation, writes <b>Der Tagesspiegel</b> Editor-in-Chief <b>Stephan-Andreas Casdorff</b>.
Castrate Knut? Overzealous animal rights activists need to keep their paws off Berlin’s beloved polar bear, argues Bernd Matthies from <i>Der Tagesspiegel</i>.
A Muslim woman is stabbed to death in a Dresden courtroom and nobody seems to care. <b><a href="http://www.tagesspiegel.de" target="_blank">Der Tagesspiegel</a></b>'s Andrea Dernbach comments on Germany’s problematic relationship to Islam.
