Politics & Society

TRUMP IN A NUTSHELL

// Editorial team CDKW Donald Trump at the WEF Davos 2026 He took a lot of time for his somewhat belated appearance at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps.

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We are doing so well

// Comment by Diana-Maria Stocker This sentence has been echoing in my head for two days now, not that I haven't heard it before. Actually

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To Venezuela

After Venezuela: Are Cuba, Iran and North Korea Trump's next targets? // by Tom Goeller The new year is off to a turbulent start. In the early hours of the morning local time on the 3rd.

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The German annual preview

// by Peter Löcke And another review of the year? Without me. Who wants to remember the political events of 2025? So let's take a look

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Without rancor

Times have changed. Not in the measured rhythm of the centuries, but in the abrupt rhythm of the digital. Criticism was once the chiseling of the work of

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The grimaces of the present

Comment by Markus Langemann// I am writing these lines barely 24 hours after the grotesque spectacle that takes place year after year in German front gardens, shopping streets and

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Prison Europe

by Markus Langemann// It always starts with a good intention. With the noble aim of creating security, ensuring order and eliminating grievances. The story

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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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