On May 28, voters in Turkey returned to the polls to cast the deciding vote in the second round of presidential elections, the first run-off election in the country’s history. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defeated opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu and stretched his rule into a third decade. Two weeks earlier, on May 14, tens of...
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, June 12 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Loveday Morris, The Washington Post's Berlin bureau chief.Loveday Morris is The Washington Post's Berlin bureau chief. Before moving to Germany in 2019, she spent...
After months of planning, Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive to reclaim wide swaths of land occupied by Russian forces is progressing "slower than desired," according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Intense battles are taking place in eastern and southern Ukraine, and some Western analysts have observed that Ukraine’s efforts are “not meeting expectations” on the battlefield because...
The ACG regularly hosts a discussion with a journalist based in Germany on the topics making the headlines and shaping political discourse. Join us on Monday, July 10 at 9:00 am ET for a Kaffeepause with Malte Lehming, Opinion Writer for Tagesspiegel.Malte Lehming works as a writer for the Tagesspiegel, where he heads the opinion page. From late 2000 to 2005, he was...
The pandemic was an inflection point for commerce and business. Companies had to adapt to new ways of working to stay afloat during the economic slowdown. Using artificial intelligence, diversifying employment models from full-time jobs to gig workers and crowd-sourcing, and moving to flex-work and hybrid workplaces were all part of what has become the...