Politics & Society

Die Fratzen der Gegenwart

Kommentar von Markus Langemann// Ich schreibe diese Zeilen knapp 24 Stunden nach jenem grotesken Schauspiel, das sich Jahr für Jahr in deutschen Vorgärten, Einkaufsstraßen und

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Gefängnis Europa

von Markus Langemann// Es beginnt stets mit einem guten Vorsatz. Mit dem hehren Ziel, Sicherheit zu schaffen, Ordnung zu gewährleisten, Missstände zu beseitigen. Die Geschichte

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Deadly courage

by Markus Langemann // Events need to be categorized. Charlie Kirk, co-founder and director of the Turning Point USA organization, is at a

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In the midst of risk

by Markus Langemann // A conversation that is rarely held: A leading asset manager in Germany soberly assesses what figures have been indicating for years - and

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France playing with fire

by Diana-Maria Stocker // A familiar but highly dangerous game is being played out in the French political arena. It is a spectacle in which not only political

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Imagine there is peace

Commentary by Peter Löcke// Events are coming thick and fast on the geopolitical stage. First, the pompous meeting between US President Trump and Kremlin leader Putin. Shortly afterwards

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The sad pop figures

Commentary by Markus Langemann // I miss the contradiction. Not the infantile defiance, but the upright resistance to the comfortable, to the cozy enclosure of the

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The lost honor of ARD

by Markus Langemann // It was Heinrich Böll, the literary titan and later Nobel Prize winner, who accused the Bild newspaper in the frosty January of 1972 of being "too lurid" with its lurid

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The delicate balancing act

by Diana-Maria Stocker // Pretty much everyone has an opinion, but only a few have read what they have formed an opinion about. Above all

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If Weidel wants Wagenknecht

Commentary by Markus Langemann // On coalition fantasies, pragmatism and the chance of a Lady Legislature There are those rare, precious moments in politics when

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The democratic prince?

by Diana-Maria Stocker Reza Pahlavi - the son of the last Iranian Shah presents himself as the bearer of hope for a new republic. A man calls for democracy

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Trump speech after attack in Iran

Here is the full translated transcript of his speech Saturday night: "Recently, the U.S. military launched massive precision strikes against the Iranian regime's three main nuclear facilities

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On the big stage. AfD at CPAC 2025.

by Adrian von Ferenczy// Standing ovation, even tears of emotion in the auditorium. This is what Alice Weidel received during her speech in Budapest. The leader of the

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Future without Germany

Letter from the editor// I remember a moment that seemed to me like a mental caesura in the past few days. A young man, beard shadowed, skeptical

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