Is Germany developing into a divided society? A Berlin research team has examined the “trigger points”, those particularly controversial hot topics and central conflict lines of inequality that promote polarization. Thomas Gesterkamp spoke to the sociologist Steffen Mau, one of the authors involved. Steffen Mau, born in 1968, is professor of macrosociology at Berlin’s Humboldt … Read more
MÜNCHEN “Out of responsibility for our Free State, we would rather tolerate a CSU minority government until October 8 than hand over our Bavarian democracy to the right-wing populists,” said SPD state leader Florian von Brunn on Friday in Munich. He again called on Söder to fire Aiwanger after allegations of an anti-Semitic leaflet from … Read more
Britain transfers £350 million to the EU every week, Boris Johnson claimed in 2016. After Brexit, the government will use the money saved to overhaul the British healthcare system. With this double lie, Johnson was suggesting what appeared to be a very simple truth. However, a majority of British voters did not want to know … Read more