Tag: politics

  • 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.

    Man in blue suit with blond hair, standing, shakes hands with a man in a navy suit seated behind a table.
  • I Hit a Wall and its Name is MAHA

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    The United States is nowhere near enacting universal health coverage. It largely does not even want to.

    A collage of images from the news media of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump, and health marketing ads
  • 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…

    Black and white image of people and belongings being loaded onto a passenger train.