Corruption

The Lausitz, a region that is historically characterized by its diverse agricultural use, is now at a crossroads where the use of the areas for different purposes is conflicted. The agricultural tradition that... [...]

The feeling arises that the idea of insider trading within German secret services reveals a particularly toxic shade of state power, because not only corrupt individuals, but entire structures are suspected of being confidential knowledge as... [...]

Deflation, a general drop in price levels, is a multi-layered economic phenomenon that can have both positive and negative consequences for economies. While price cuts based on efficiency increases, in certain historical epochs to prosperity... [...]

The times when data protection was limited to subsequently resolving the consequences of technological developments have long been a thing of the past. It is not enough to rely on reactive measures, such as... [...]

The depressing feeling arises that social networks are no longer just places of free exchange between citizens, but also test fields of state influence in which secret services have their fingers deep in the game. Where used to be people... [...]

The state emphasizes with emphasis that it wants nothing to do with the German Empire and has detached itself from every authoritarian tradition. But of all things, the Emigrants' Protection Act shows that this distance is a facade... [...]

Such an IT mercenary is nothing more than the state's cold, cynical betrayal of its own rules, a creeping state coup in the digital space, executed with a keyboard instead of tanks. A state that hacks hackers to... [...]

In authoritarian states, cadaver obedience is one of the darkest forms of state action. Here, officials become compliant tools of an authority to which they serve unconditionally without their own responsibility or the ethical foundations of their actions. [...]

The depressing feeling arises that something is deeply crooked in the structure of this country when, of all things, that agreement that was celebrated as the foundation of German unity is treated like an annoying marginal note today. The... [...]

The Saint Florian principle symbolizes the human tendency to keep unpleasant duties, costs or problems away from oneself as possible and instead burden others. Originally, the name originates from the saying "Holy Saint Florian, spare my house, ignite... [...]