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In the face of widespread ideologization, societal tribalization, and an increasingly rigid friend-or-foe mentality, it is perhaps the perpetual generational conflict that... more

As a child, growing up in the beautiful, idyllic Mulde Valley, not far from Penig, I was often here. By bike, with friends, simply to pass the time in Little America. Back... more

The murder of Charlie Kirk has shaken the political landscape. The conservative activist, founder of Turning Point USA, was shot dead in Utah during a lecture--an act of... more

When sixteen people (including the perpetrators) died in a mass shooting at Columbine High School in Denver on April 20, 1999, it didn't take long for a scapegoat to be found... more

Der Spiegel was once a major news magazine. Then the Hamburg-based editors began to betray the liberal legacy of the magazine's founder. Today, the editorial staff even keeps... more

The right-wing online portal Offensiv! recently addressed my demand to take on an additional 200 to 300 billion euros in national debt every year, or rather, they completely... more

How history was suppressed, a state invented, and a conflict ideologically charged. By Serdar Somuncu more

In the Bundestag, before the imperial eagle, a tall, slender, blonde woman stands at the lectern. She bellows inflammatory, anti-Muslim tirades. Hundreds, if not thousands,... more

Instead of "Where's the way to Australia?", after graduating from high school it's back to "Where, please, is the front line?" Strangely enough, no German citizen seems to... more