He’s not the only one. Sunday’s national parliament election — which brought the demise of a green-minded, three-year-old coalition and ushered in a new leader heavily focused on economic growth — has triggered speculation about a climate policy bonfire.

Most mornings, my husband Stefan and I have coffee in bed while we look at the news. While I open up Slate, the New York Times, and New York magazine, Stefan, who moved to New York from Berlin a year ago,

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big implications for Europe.