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
Diana-Maria Stocker September 8, 2025 6 Comments
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
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
Essay by Markus Langemann // There is a strange contradiction in our time: the world is full of voices, full of opinions, full of gestures of supposedly having a say
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
by Dr. Johanna Weber // Even the first generation of Covid vaccines was said to be susceptible to so-called vaccine shedding, i.e. transmission via bodily fluids
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
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
by Diana-Maria Stocker // The Nazi era showed how quickly normative principles can be undermined by ideology, and it is happening again today. That
Commentary by Markus Langemann // On coalition fantasies, pragmatism and the chance of a Lady Legislature There are those rare, precious moments in politics when
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
by Markus Langemann If you want to understand what is going on between Washington, Tehran and Tel Aviv these days, you should not only consume the news, but also
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
"Peter Thiel: The silent architect of a new world order."
by Markus Langemann// I had a conversation with financial expert Alexander Streeb that could be described as nothing less than an economic revelation. It is
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
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
Commentary by Peter Löcke// Habemus cancellarium! We have a new chancellor. Germany's new bridge builder is Friedrich Merz. Friedrich the First is the first chancellor to become the second
by Diana-Maria Stocker// Democracies stand or fall on the ability of their institutions to limit power and secure trust. Especially where the executive and security architecture
Essay by Markus Langemann// It is one of the oddities of our age that machines, born from the circuitry of human invention, are now supposed to answer questions that
Essay by Markus Langemann// It is a quiet, barely tangible shock that is sweeping through our society. Not a bang, not an outcry - but a kind of vibration,
by Sabiene Jahn// History is not returning as a farce, but as calculated madness in a tailor-made suit. Friedrich Merz, the designated Federal Chancellor, stages himself with growing determination
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