Angela Merkel was the longest-serving chancellor ... In her book, she describes childhood under the East German (GDR) dictatorship as "a life constantly on the edge. No matter how carefree a ...

Ronny Hartmann / Getty Images Angela Merkel (born Angela Dorothea Kasner on July 17, 1954) was chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She was the first woman to hold the office and the second ...

Angela Merkel’s black limousine cruised to a stop ... perhaps indulging her childhood dream of traveling through the US. She isn’t explicitly running for re-election as a German version ...

Naturally, there’s a German word that perfectly captures Angela Merkel’s dry, unemotive rhetorical style: vorsichtigkeit, which means, roughly, prudence. The German chancellor, who at age 63 ...