Archiv des Autors: Michael Wehle

Max Roser, Our World in Data: Why do Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries, despite paying so much more for health care? The short summary of what I will discuss below is that Americans … Weiterlesen →

Guardian: An Australian woman who planned to house-sit in Canada during a holiday has said she was detained, fingerprinted, interrogated about her abortion history and quickly deported during a stopover in the US. Madolline Gourley, a Brisbane resident, says she … Weiterlesen →

Roosevelt emerges from the pages of the documents pertaining to the history of the Yalta Conference as a true founder of the imperial presidency, running his own foreign policy by reducing the State Department to little more than an instrument … Weiterlesen →

If one is looking for high-level meetings to blame for the Cold War-era division of Europe, then Moscow and Potsdam come to the fore, not Yalta. It was in Moscow that Churchill and Stalin agreed to divide the Balkans in … Weiterlesen →

Brendan O’Neill, spiked: Indeed, the rebels’ letters of resignation were primarily aimed at the media. They were for the BBC and the Guardian and social media, not for us in the now broken and disregarded realm of what used to be called … Weiterlesen →