Europe’s most powerful leader is a refugee from a time and place where her power would have been unimaginable. The German Democratic Republic, where Angela Merkel grew up, was neither democratic ...

including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Prince William and Jack Ma, the co-founder and executive chairman of ...

Angela Merkel’s black ... eight years ever spent that much time alone with anybody other than his wife,” a senior Obama administration official told me. Merkel was emerging from one of the ...