Deutschland müsse schneller, pragmatischer und entschiedener handeln, sagt Frank Sauer. Der Sicherheitsexperte der Universität der Bundeswehr München fragt sich aber: Was ist politisch gewünscht?

In just five years, solar, wind, and batteries overtook fossil fuels, keeping air conditioners running while slashing pollution.

A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement.

Ahead of the Berlin election, the Constitutional Protection Agency is warning of targeted disinformation campaigns from Russia.

Britain's failure to fund defence adequately is a turning point

Prime minister says British armed forces intercepted a Russian shadow fleet vessel in the early hours of Sunday morning As my colleagues report in this story, teenagers under the age of 16 are expected to be banned from accessing “high-risk” social media apps while safer platforms will be subjected to restrictions, under a sweeping government crackdown. Under-18s will also be banned from using romantic or sexual AI chatbots after a consultation on keeping children safe online. I don’t want to get ahead of the prime minister’s announcement (expected on Monday). But when we launched the consultation, it was a question of how we better protect young people online, not if we do so. And one of the things that a social media ban does and has been shown to do in Australia is that although it doesn’t stop all young people going online and onto social media apps, it does mean that you change the presumption at a very early age to stop the situation where kids as young as eight, nine, 10, 11 are going on to social media sites because all of their friends are on them at an age when, frankly, they’re not really emotionally equipped to be able to cope with it. Continue reading...

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Kyjiw erlebt den schwersten Raketenbeschuss im laufenden Angriffskrieg. Russlands Präsident Wladimir Putin braucht dafür keinen Anlass – nur gut gefüllte Arsenale.

a debate about military forecasting, broken clocks, and magic wands

This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.

In less than a decade the American leadership that the West took for granted has collapsed. Now we are forced to consider the previously unthinkable

The Merz government has started to restructure Germany’s foreign and security policy apparatus. The changes are happening too slowly and are not radical enough.

The 23rd issue of INTERNATIONALE POLITIK QUARTERLY focuses on German foreign policy one year after the Merz government came into office.

The Best Picture contenders reflect a mad world—and they're suitably lurid, pulpy, comic, and strange.