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Not as many people will get the chance to vote in 2025 compared with the previous year. MicroStockHub/Getty Images

5 elections to watch in 2025

Experts on politics in Canada, Germany, Chile, Belarus and the Philippines weigh in on what to expect as each country’s voters prepare to head to the ballot box.
The power station at Volkswagen’s Wolfsburg plant in Germany. Olivier Hofmann / Shutterstock

Volkswagen: the end of a German industrial myth?

A symbol of German industrial power, Volkswagen is facing major financial difficulties. How did the emblem of “deutsche Qualität” get to this point? And can it pull through?
This spread reproduces images that appeared in the first issue of the llustrierter Beobachter, a Nazi publication, in July 1926, including one cropped image that falsely gives the impression that a Nazi event was well attended. Public domain

A Nazi magazine regularly published manipulated photos and misinformation, long before the age of AI

The Nazis routinely shared altered photos in their official publication, the Illustrierter Beobachter, causing readers to question what was real or fake.
The fall of the Berlin wall has not sufficed to erase differences between East and West. Shutterstock

Why German reunification is still a good idea

Thirty years after German reunification, large differences persist between East and West. Although these disparities are concerning, it’s crucial to put them into perspective. Nothing is definitive yet.
A warrant is out for a diver – but Vladimir Putin can breathe easy, it isn’t for him. Alexey Druzhinin/RIA NOVOSTI/AFP via Getty Images)

Treating Nord Stream blasts as a whodunit misses the point – and plays into Russia’s plan to distract and divide

Since saboteurs blew up the Russia-Germany gas pipelines in September 2022, theories have swirled about who was responsible. German prosecutors recently issued a warrant for a Ukrainian.

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