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Austin Davis

Austin Davis is a Berlin-based freelance journalist.

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Donald Trump hold a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, March 17, 2017.

Germany’s relations with Russia and the US are a delicate balancing act in the Trump-Putin era

Global Politics

President Donald Trump shocked Germans during the NATO summit in Brussels this week by accusing their country of being in bed with Russia. As Trump heads to Helsinki for a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Germany is in many ways stuck between a rock and a hard place.’

Because of renewable energy sources, Wolfhagen, Germany, with 14,000 inhabitants, is able to generate about 106 percent of the its electricity needs throughout the year. The surplus is sold to neighborhing communities, and the Wolfhagen's residents receiv

Tiny Wolfhagen, Germany leads the country’s green energy transition

Environment
Students in a welcome class for migrants attend a German language lesson at the Sankt Franziskus school in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 22, 2016.

There are about 400,000 refugee kids in Germany. Educating them is a ‘national task.’

Justice
A man who identifies himself as a migrant takes a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside a refugee camp near the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in Berlin, Germany, Sept. 10, 2015.

For many Germans, this election is about refugees

Conflict
At the Cottbus Chamber of Crafts trainees enrolled in a refugee training program prepare for the day's metalworking assignment, in Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany, Jan. 11, 2017.

Refugees are struggling to navigate Germany’s apprenticeship system

Justice
The Recruits German military

The German military’s recruiting videos are so much more than an ad campaign

Media

“The Recruits,” a 90-part YouTube miniseries, has become a cult sensation.