The Weimar Republic was a time of endless crises. Its existence ceased to exist after less than 14 years with the arrival of Adolf Hitler . Few at the time mourned German democracy.

By contrast, the United States in 2025 has until now had a strong democratic tradition, stable institutions and a military ...

Democracies can fail. Current events have raised the question of how stable or fragile democratic structures are, and whether ...

The Weimar Republic was a time of endless crises. Its existence ceased to exist after less than 14 years with the arrival of Adolf Hitler . Few at the time mourned German democracy.

Was Weimar Germany doomed? A vibrant new history argues it wasn’t. Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo” recaptures and endorses the era’s spirit of modern excess, and argues that it could have lasted.

U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (L) speaks during a moderated conversation with former US Representative Liz Cheney at Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the ...

Despite high hopes, the new republic was troubled throughout its short life, riven by radicalism on both the left and the right, catastrophically failing in the end, and giving way in 1933 to ...

An agreement has been reached regarding property confiscated from the Hohenzollern family: Items currently displayed in ...

Angry pacifists rampage through the streets of Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich in protest against West German membership in NATO. The CIA reports that they will burn down barracks of foreign troops ...

In the podcast, Theil drew a comparison between Germany's Weimar Republic period and modern democracy. Peter Thiel at a conference in Miami Florida, April 7, 2022.