Tag: Europe
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Bad Trip – What is Going on With Google Maps?
Weird detours, inaccurate time estimates, walking routes that double back on themselves. Is this some new instance of enshittification?
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Things to Consider if You Want to Leave the U.S.
Kaila’s post over at Home Abroad reminded me of the February report from the Brookings Institution that revaled a record number of American citizens moved overseas in 2025. It marks the first time since the Great Depression that more people left the United States than moved in.
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The Truth About ‘Free Healthcare’
It is true that all countries in Europe have what is known as “universal healthcare,” meaning that all people in a given country or region are able to get the medical care that they need, when and where they need it, without financial hardship. But …
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Reading List: Going Hungary Edition
Depending on where you are sitting when you read this, you may be wondering why it seemed like the entire planet was watching last week’s national elections in Hungary, a small, landlocked central European nation considered one of the poorest in the European Union.
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Not Working for the Man
We support organized labor. My husband is a member of the Ver.di union. And one of the main reasons we decided to move our family to Germany and the European Union was so our kids would start their working lives with more rights and protections than we had in the United States. So, while it…
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This is What Mass Deportation Looks Like
Around the corner from my apartment in Berlin, there is a group of five brass plates inlaid in the cobblestones of the sidewalk in front of the house at Boxhagener Strasse 50. They are the Stolpersteine for the Kaufmann family: Ewald and his wife Helene (her birth name was Gerechtner); their sons, Theo, Kurt, and Julian; daughter-in-law Johanna…
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