In 1990 Gaus found a new voice, becoming a co-producer of the newly (re)launched left-wing political weekly Der Freitag. The publication's longer title included, duirng the early 1990s, a second line: "Die Ost-West-Wochenzeitung" ("The East-West weekly newspaper"), neatly summing up a principal preoccupation of Freitag's controlling minds. Between 1991 and 2004 he was a co-producer of , during that period a serious minded Berlin-based monthly publication concentrating on German and international politics. In political terms, Günter Gaus felt he was becoming increasingly from the mainstream following reunification, the manner of which he continued to deplore in print. He opposed what he saw as the casual militarisation of German foreign policy, and was deeply critical pf Germany's participation in the Yugoslav Wars and the Iraq War during the 1990s. He also criticised the malign aspects of globalisation during the final years of the twentieth century, condemning so-called "natural law" justifications for the globalising market economy and the "licentious propensities of finance capital". During the final decade of his life Günter Gaus, who had always been content to identify himself as a "Conservative Social Democrat", was disconcerted to find himself reacting to political developments as an unreformed political leftist. It was not, as he insisted, his own political compass that had moved, but society which had, "with breath-taking speed, tacked past [him] to the right".