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Yanis Varoufakis claims European leaders use warmongering to distract domestic voters from profound economic failures. Emmanuel Macron uses foreign policy to obscure a massive French budget deficit, while Germany shifts failing automotive production lines to tank manufacturing.
Tom Nuttall reports that Germany's Christian Democratic Union failed to enter the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state parliament for the first time in history, winning just 4.9% of the vote. This historic defeat places Chancellor Friedrich Merz under intense pressure from within his own party.
Tom Nuttall notes that Germany's political center is fracturing as the populist right Alternative for Germany won 38% of the vote in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Meanwhile, the hard-left Die Linke is poised to form a coalition in Berlin on a platform of expropriating corporate housing.
Astra Taylor argues that the rise of Germany's AfD is driven by economic precarity and the fallout of climate change. Rather than addressing these structural failures, far-right parties pivot public panic toward cultural scapegoats like immigrants and trans children.
Alfred Ploetz brought eugenics to Germany, coining the term race hygiene after a disappointing stay at an Iowa socialist commune. Ploetz founded the Racial Hygiene Society in 1905, naming Galton its honorary vice president.