Sebastian Kurz is up here having a drink with business associates. Just four days ago he had meetings in Abu Dhabi, then Prague, before traveling via Vienna to Israel. In a few hours he will be ...

For the past year and more, media studies professor Bernhard Poerksen has been observing and critiquing DER SPIEGEL. In this ...

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The murder of Charlie Kirk has fanned the flames of the Trump administration's lust for thought control. The hunt for his enemies and dissenters, long since begun, has entered a new and dangerous ...

Visiting the works of Ilsenburger Grobblech GmbH is like taking a trip back in time. Way back in the 16th century, copper used to be produced at this site in the northern Harz Mountains, not far from ...

His job has become more difficult under Chinese ruler Xi Jinping, says the Buddhist abbot. Laobuseng Jinpa is around 50 years old, an ethnic Mongol with a shaved head and dressed in deep red robes. He ...

It’s a Thursday on the German island of Rügen, a popular tourist destination on the northeastern coast. The location: an everyday supermarket. On the checkout conveyor belt: bread for toast, two ...

At Aldi, REWE or Karstadt: Almost everybody in Germany has likely encountered PAYONE. All the customer has to do is hold her card to a reader, sometimes the company’s logo pops up, and then, in the ...

Nobel Laureate on America's Crisis in Academia "The Goal of the Trump Administration Is to Destroy the Elite" The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump continues to ramp up the pressure on ...

The sacking of Julian Reichelt, the editor-in-chief of Germany's top tabloid, only came after years of questionable conduct. New reporting shows that Axel Springer, the publishing house that owns the ...

Sophie in’t Veld, 60, is a Dutch politician. She has been a member of the European Parliament for around 20 years and belongs to the liberal, free market- and civil liberties-oriented Renew Europe ...

For our Global Societies project, reporters around the world will be writing about societal problems, sustainability and development in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. The series will include ...