The American historian Dagmar Herzog has presented an intellectual history of eugenics over the last 150 years in Germany. Training in eugenics: Opening of the exhibition “Hereditary Health – Hereditary Disease” in Berlin, 1934 Photo: Scherl/SZ Photo Reading Dagmar Herzog’s “Eugenic Phantasms. A German Story” is almost unbearable in places. This has nothing to do … Read more
Australia wants to ban teenagers from accessing social media. Digital spaces are essential and experiences there are as real as analog ones. Soon no more social media for young people? Photo: Schank/Pond5/imago Simply lock young people out. That’s the solution! At least that’s what the Australian government thinks, which wants to ban people from accessing … Read more
In Dresden, part of the city’s most important Elbe bridge has collapsed. Thousands of bridges across Germany need to be repaired. Parts of the Carola Bridge over the Elbe have collapsed; it was used by trams, cyclists and pedestrians. Photo: Matthias Rietschel/reuters The new symbol of the dilapidated state of infrastructure in Germany has a … Read more
The Supreme Court’s immunity decision is having an effect. The special investigator is adjusting the indictment in the election trial against Trump. Donald Trump’s former lawyers after a hearing at the Supreme Court on September 5, 2024 Photo: Jose Luis Magana/ap Washington taz | Former US President Donald will only have to answer in court … Read more
A nursing assistant had filed a lawsuit against the vaccination requirement. Now the Federal Constitutional Court must decide. Also in play: the RKI protocols. Walk in Düsseldorf against Corona measures such as compulsory vaccination for nursing staff in February 2022 Photo: Christoph Hardt/imago Osnabruck taz | The case that the Osnabrück Administrative Court is hearing … Read more
Lidokino 5: Justin Kurzel’s action thriller “The Order” is about Nazi terror in the USA. It is based on a true story. It all starts with a radio broadcast. Not as a cause, but that’s how the film’s story begins. The presenter Alan Berg, who works for a station in Denver, speaks to a caller … Read more
Germans who go on holiday to Great Britain are quick to complain that everything is so expensive here. But German holidaymakers get off better than the British themselves. Holidays in London are possible, but without expensive Ferris wheel rides Photo: Jakub Porzycki/imago The German family at the next table was a little disappointed as they … Read more
All parties throw around the term justice. But what is really fair? A little theory might help. Justice is not achieved through a party, but in court Photo: Panama Pictures/imago Again and again, parties swear how extremely “fair” things would be if they were entrusted with power. In doing so, they alienate this concept and … Read more
Laurie Anderson publishes “Amelia”, a work about the US aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. Her fight for equal rights is incorporated into it. One capriol too many: Amelia Earhart (1897–1937) Photo: Globe Photos/imago When the pilot and aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart boarded her Lockheed 10-E Electra propeller plane on May 21, 1937, she had big plans: … Read more
The British group Oasis has announced a comeback. That should be a shock, because their boring rock music also paved the way for Brexit. Oasis are going on tour again?! So what? Any other problems? Do the Gallagher brothers, with their completely sappy, pathetic guitar whining that was already prevalent in the 1990s, and their … Read more