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The limits of BRICS

On Sunday, Germany’s socialist party Die Linke won the Berlin elections for the first time. Like New York’s Zohran Mamdani, it beat the establishment parties by offering Berliners concrete action on rents and the cost of living.

The leftist Die Linke party won the most votes in Berlin, even as the far right AfD won a state election in the north.

Germany's big surprises

A quarter of Berlin residents will have no say in the German capital's city-state election because they lack citizenship. That's the highest proportion of residents excluded from the election yet, and many are unhappy.

Elections galore

Die Linke can build support for radical changes with practical quality-of-life improvements for Berliners.

Over 150,000 citizens have left the country in the past two years alone — many of them with a one-way ticket and no plans of returning.