When the German elections were over, the flavor of the results was tutti frutti.  Any governing coalition had to include at least three parties, and the votes for the top two parties were so close, that the next two parties could essentially go either way.  But which way might the progressive Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats want to go? Madeleine Schwartz of The Ballot and the NY Review of Books helps us understand the story, in depth.