Politics

The state of the nation:Jamboree in the House of Europe
25 Years after the Maastricht Treaty created the EU, the political experiment is visibly failing

Like a wandering dune, the growing European construct continues to crunch its way across the continent.

Bungling politics:Open Door and High Wall
Why current asylum and refugee laws lead to barriers

Politicians often agree on slick soundbites to create a good image, trusting that no one will be so foolish as to follow through what they have decided to the very last consequence.

Merkel’s final days:Will Everything be All Right Again in the End?
Always the same old musings about self-sacrificing politicians

A change at the top does not improve politics. But then, what does?

The media on Chemnitz:New Myths Leveled Against the Right
Rallies critical of the government are scandalized

Immature authors assume the attitude of colonial masters.

Demonstrations in Chemnitz:The Next Level of Outrage in Germany
Against the government, its failing immigration policy and its lapdog media

20 percent of Germans no longer believe the Ministry of Truth.

Siemens CEO Kaeser on AfD leader Alice Weidel:A Hero called Joe
A corporate leader goes astray

Formerly known as Josef Käser, this man signs deals with sheikhs but lambasts the AfD for using supposedly un-PC words.

Trial against Identitarian Movement:Powerless, Distraught, Angry
The court case is the punishment

The authorities can only win, even if they lose legally.

The case of Özil and Gündoğan at the World Cup:Market-Compliant Booing and Collective Identity
Fans not only buy the sport, but also the sense of community

The controversy surrounding two German soccer players with Turkish roots reveals that sport is an expression of identity.

US leaving the UNHRC:Trump as a Chance for Germany
Germans can now ignore the human rights council when setting their immigration policy

Without the weight of the US backing the UN Human Rights Council, countries are liberated from its hyper-morality.

Civic anarchism:Class Action Lawsuit Against the State
Why for once we could be thankful for the EU

Let's apply this new law to governments.

Parallels to the end of the GDR:Angela, it’s over. You have to go
Once again, there is a ‘broad social alliance’

It's déjà vu from 1989 all over again.

State sexism:What Women Want
Freedom to prove their worth and earn it

Quota requirements and the like destroy the value of women's work.

Women's march in Kandel:We Will Crawl No Longer!
We have been robbed of the lightness of being.

Women are standing in the way of a political-correctness-dictatorship.

Declaration against mass immigration:The Political Tide is Turning in Germany
Against the postmodernist, multiculturalist establishment

What happens when the middle class revolts against the establishment? Germany is about to find out.

UN Human Rights Council on Switzerland:An Alpine Outpost of Injustice and Violence
Politics cut to the chase

Have you laughed yet today? Or cried? No? Read the following. Then both will happen automatically. Simultaneously.

Taking stock of Donald Trump’s time in office:A Competition of Crooks
Not a different sort of politics is the answer, but no politics at all

"He's not going to be so bad, he doesn't really mean it." Oh yes he is, oh yes he does.

Revival of free speech at Speakers’ Corner:Embarrassing Defeat for the British State
And for its ruling class

What happened when someone was denied the right to speak at Speakers' Corner? Someone else took over, and thousands attended.

School killing spree in Florida:Sanctimonious gun debate is a distraction
Much more relevant factors are fatherlessness and the destruction of the family

There is one thing in common among all the crazed school shooters, in the US and beyond.

Political correctness:The End of Formula 1 Grid Girls
The relentless march to the feminist goal

When will cheerleaders disappear?

Civic anarchism:The Spectre of Secession
What’s haunting Europe?

When people want something completely innocent like a secession, strange things happen.

Government formation:The Grand Coalition is Coming - and that is Good
The Left are nearly split, the AfD leads the opposition

While two hollowed out, crumbling establishment cartel parties are coming together (again), the Greens are outmaneuvered, and new forces are rising.

Hope in Eastern Europe:Will the Old Cold War Divide Save the Continent?
The only option we’re left with

In the face of massive non-European immigration in the west, the region's cultural identity could be maintained east of the river Elbe.

Observing illegal immigration:'Identitarians' make Leviathan jump
The IM produces practical wheat, but theoretical chaff only so far

While achieving a stunning success in the Mediterranean, the Identitarian Movement's political theory is still unclear.

Islamist Violence in Europe:Terrorism? No, Genocide
Terrorists have political aims

Europeans and others of Christian, Jewish and otherwise ‘false’ faiths will continue to be slaughtered in the future not for what they, or their fathers, have done, or are doing, but exclusively for what they are: Unbelievers, in the sense of the Koran.