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#43: Should Berlin socialise housing?

Activists collecting signatures for the 2021 Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen campaign

Dear reader,

Left-wing politics are experiencing a revival in figures like NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has made it his mission to tackle the cost-of-l...

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#42: Germans in space

Photo: Isar Aerospace

Dear reader,

All week, I’ve be binge-reading depressing stuff about the AfD victory in Saxony-Anhalt. I don’t feel there’s much else to be said for now. Once we know if and how the AfD will form a state government,...

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#41: AI vs. the German state

No work of fiction stands for the oppressive complexity and maddening intransparency of the state than Kafka’s The Trial.

In today’s world pretty much nothing is as kafkaesque as German tax law.

Recently, my most AI-critical friend told m...

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#40: Defense hacks in Brandenburg

All photos by Ryan O’Shea

Dear reader,

Days after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, then-Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) announced a Zeitenwende (epochal shift) when it came to Germany’s role in European defense. A...

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#39: Is the CDU toast?

The CDU candidate in the upcoming Berlin election. Bland, kind of conservative, no vision?

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Fun fact: My grandfather was an early member of the CDU after World War II and worked as a state secretary under Chancellor Konrad Ad...

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