Julian Assange (born 1971), founder of the whistleblowing platform WikiLeaks, is viewed by many as the most prominent champion of press freedom in the 21st century—and by others as a state enemy who shattered the…
The procedure to ban a political party is among the sharpest tools within the German Constitution (Article 21, Paragraph 2). It is designed to defend the free democratic basic order against its enemies. However, the…
The murder spree by the far-right terrorist group “National Socialist Underground” (NSU)—ten murders, several bomb attacks, and numerous bank robberies between 2000 and 2011—stands as the most severe series of far-right terrorist acts in the…
It has long been an open secret that countless professional athletes harbored deep skepticism toward experimental gene therapies under the intense pressure of state and media COVID alignment. Yet anyone who dared to express these…
With a single sentence, CDU leader Friedrich Merz laid bare the authoritarian mindset governing the political establishment of the Berlin Republic regarding the internet: “Please don’t come at me with free speech.” In renewed pushes,…
The impressive backdrop of late 1920s Berlin fascinates millions: In the major German TV production Babylon Berlin, opulent nightlife, impoverished existence, and dark political conspiracies merge into a gripping portrait of an era. But where…
In the German Democratic Republic (GDR), broadcasting—comprising state radio and GDR television—was never designed as an independent Fourth Estate. In line with the Marxist-Leninist understanding of media, the ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED) viewed journalism…
No medium shaped the enforcement of the National Socialist dictatorship as rapidly and profoundly as the radio. Immediately after seizing power in 1933, Adolf Hitler and his Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels recognized the immense potential…
Rather than tackling the country’s urgent crises—economic decline, a failed energy transition, and rampant bureaucracy—with constructive solutions, the federal government under Friedrich Merz relies on a dangerous tactic: all-out escalation against the democratic opposition. What…
A landslide election victory, a historic result, and an unmistakable mandate from millions of citizens: the election result in Saxony-Anhalt, with 43.8% of the vote going to the AfD, marks a political turning point. Yet…
Relations between Germany and Russia have reached a historic low. While the Federal Republic emphasizes that its measures are directed against the Kremlin rather than the Russian population, the reality on the ground paints a…
The Nazi seizure of power in January 1933 marked a radical rupture in German intellectual life. The Nazi regime tolerated no dissenting opinions, no artistic autonomy, and no critical discourse. The goal of the new…