Folge 16: Vorwahlen Teil 2, der Supreme Court und ein neues Waffengesetz 

 

(aufgenommen am 28. Juli 2022)

 

Housekeeping

On-Demand-Seminar: Summer School 2022: Democracy under Attack. Die USA in Zeiten der Krisen

 

Vorwahlen in den USA, Teil 2

https://twitter.com/CasMudde/status/1548758573727055872?s=20&t=0HH-RdGBLsk3_V8uSUfCaw

https://host2.adimpact.com/admo/viewer/539303ca-49a8-4d69-88a6-75dc1280f623/

Democratic Governors Association Boosting Bailey in New Ad Campaign (The Illinoize)

‚It’s disgusting‘: Kinzinger slams Dems backing election-deniers in GOP primaries (Politico)

https://twitter.com/DougDucey/status/1550576131111149568

Pence endorsement in Ariz. governor’s race puts him at odds with Trump (The Washington Post).

https://twitter.com/LaineyWasi/status/1551900702192041984

What Redistricting Looks Like In Every State, FiveThirtyEight.

Days before his South Carolina primary, a G.O.P. congressman who voted to impeach Trump stands by his vote (The New York Times)

Battles over Israel divide Democratic primaries (Politico)

New MI-11 poll shows Stevens leading Levin by 27 points (Jewish Insider)

Running Again (United Democracy Project)

Donna Edwards gets help from Pelosi to swat at attack ad tied to AIPAC (The Washington Post)

 

Der Supreme Court und seine gefällten Entscheidungen

“It’s been a devestating several weeks”: Wisconsin doctors cross state lines to navigate post-roe abortion ban (Vanity Fair)
Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as first Black woman on the Supreme Court (NPR)

How the Christian right took over the judiciary and changed America (The Guardian)

One man’s outsized role in shaping the Supreme Court and overturning Roe (NPR)

An Extraordinary Winning Streak for Religion at the Supreme Court (New York Times)
Praying Coach v. District That Suspended Him: What’s Next in Fight Over Religious Expression (Education Week)

THE ROBERTS COURT AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS FOR RELIGION: A STATISTICAL PORTRAIT (Supreme Court Review) 

The Supreme Court Sabotages Efforts to Protect Public Health and Safety (New York Times)

Here’s what’s in Biden’s executive order on abortion rights (CNN)

Republicans stay mum as Senate pushes toward same-sex marriage vote (Washington Post)

Same-Sex Marriage Support Inches Up to New High of 71% (Gallup)
Harvard Affirmative Action, Gay Rights Cases Are Next Up at Supreme Court (Bloomberg)

Address by Justice Samuel Alito [2020 NLC Live] (Video, Federalist Society)

 

SCOTUS: Moore v. Harper

The ‘Independent State Legislature Theory,’ Explained (Brennan Center for Justice), Moore v. Harper (SCOTUSblog), 

Is Democracy Constitutional? (The Atlantic)

https://twitter.com/Thom_Hartmann/status/1543079225254559744

https://twitter.com/mlewandowsky/status/1543812201630339072

 

Das neue Waffengesetz „Bipartisan Safer Communities Act“

Why now? How four senators finally got a gun deal no one thought was possible (CNN)

Bipartisan Senate group releases bill text for gun safety deal (Axios)

18 U.S. Code § 922 – Unlawful acts (Legal Information Institute)

https://www.schoolsafety.gov

 

Transatlantic Treat

Kapitelbild: © Hudson Rowen

What Has 6 Legs, 2 Eyes and 158,500 Votes? This ‘I Voted’ Sticker. (The New York Times)I Voted Sticker Contest (Ulster County Board of Elections)

14-Year-Old’s Unique ‚I Voted‘ Sticker Design Sweeps New York Contest, Resembling ‚Craziness of Politics‘ (People)

Folge 15: Abtreibungsrecht, Vorwahlen und Babynahrung

 

(aufgenommen am 31. Mai 2022)

 

Housekeeping

Vortrag: Verschwörungstheorien – aus Sicht der Naturwissenschaft

Talk: The Far Right After the Russian Re-Invasion

 

Vorwahlen in den USA

Open and closed primaries (FairVote)

State Primary Election Types (National Conference of State Legislatures)

Fair Fight Action Website

Reelection Rates Over the Years (OpenSecrets.org)

Trump endorses J.D. Vance in Ohio Republican Senate primary (CNN), Vom Trump-Kritiker zum Getreuen (tagesschau)

Pence: Voting for Kemp sends ‘deafening message’ that GOP is the future (The Hill)

Trump and Pence hold dueling rallies for Perdue and Kemp on eve of Georgia’s bitter GOP gubernatorial primary (Fox News)

Website von GOP 2.0 (inkl. Video)

Geoff Duncan’s ‘GOP 2.0′ batters Trump with TV attacks ahead of Georgia rally (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), 

Texas 28th Congressional District Runoff Election Results (The New York Times)

Der Supreme Court und das Abtreibungsrecht

America’s Abortion Quandary (Pew Research Center)
Polling shows America in the middle on abortion (Axios)
Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows (Politico)
What to Know About the Mississippi Abortion Law Challenging Roe v. Wade (The New York Times)
US-Demokraten scheitern mit Gesetz für Abtreibungsrecht im Senat (Tagesspiegel)
Zehntausende demonstrieren für Erhalt des Rechts auf Abtreibungen (Zeit Online)
Statement by President Joe Biden (The White House)
13 states have passed so-called ‚trigger laws,‘ bans designed to go into effect if Roe v. Wade is overturned (CNN)
Could overturning Roe v. Wade have implications beyond abortion? (NPR Politics)
How far the GOP might go post-Roe on abortion, contraception and travel (Washington Post)
Ep. 20- EMERGENCY (Teil 1): Das Ende von Roe (Kreuz und Flagge Podcast)
How we got here: Roe v. Wade from 1973 to today (VOX)
Dobbs and the Fate of the Conservative Legal Movement (CityJournal)
Understanding Pregnancy Resulting from Rape in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Mangel an Babynahrung und transatlantische „Luftbrücke“

Best & Worst States to Have a Baby (WalletHub)

Erste Lieferung an Babynahrung über Ramstein in USA eingetroffen (SWR Aktuell)
USA fliegen Babymilch über Ramstein ein (Deutsche Welle)
U.S. Military Airlifts Baby Formula From Europe (The New York Times)

 

Transatlantic Treat

Netflix-Miniserie „Unsere wunderbaren Nationalparks“ 

Reservati und die surfenden Nilpferde (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Unsere wunderbaren Nationalparks (Netflix)

Folge 14: Supreme Court, US-Haushalt 2022, Joe Bidens Besuch in Europa und das Engagement der USA 

 

(aufgenommen am 1. April 2022)

 

Housekeeping

Online Talk & Discussion: The U.S. Military and Us

Online-Lesung: Paradise Blues – Reisen in die Natur und die Geschichte der USA

Online-Veranstaltung: TV Thursday – Reboots & Revivals

Supreme Court Nominierung von Ketanji Brown Jackson
Foto: „Ketanji Brown Jackson“ (Public Domain) by bswise

Biden made a campaign pledge to put a Black woman on the Supreme Court. (The New York Times)

Nuclear option: Why Trump’s Supreme Court pick needs only 51 votes (CBS News)

The Confirmation Hearing of Ketanji Brown Jackson (The New York Times, The Daily Podcast)

Absurde Fragen an die Kandidatin (TAZ)

Supreme Court approval rating tanks as Biden weighs Breyer replacement (Axios)

Half of Trump’s supporters think top Democrats are involved in child sex-trafficking (YouGov)

Collins to Back Jackson for Supreme Court, Giving Her a G.O.P. Vote (The New York Times)

 

Haushalt 2022 verabschiedet

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (Congress)

The Odd Story of the Law That Dictates How Government Shutdowns Work (The Atlantic)

Q&A: Everything You Should Know About Government Shutdowns (Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, CRFB)

What is a continuing resolution? (Peter G. Peterson Foundation)

Continuing Resolutions: Overview of Components and Practices (CRS R42647)

How Congress’s dependence on short-term funding keeps us stuck in the past (Vox)

Roll Call 65 | Bill Number: H. R. 2471 (HoR)

Progressives grit their teeth as defense wins big in spending bill (Politico)

Roll Call 66 | Bill Number: H. R. 2471 (HoR)

Visualizing the $13.6 Billion in U.S. Spending on Ukraine (The New York Times)

Five things to know about the $1.5T spending bill Congress just passed (The Hill)

Lawmakers release fiscal 2022 spending deal (E&E News)

House Dems clear $1.5T spending deal after stripping Covid aid (Politico)

House passes overdue $1.5 trillion omnibus appropriations bill (Roll Call)

House Passes $1.5 Trillion Spending Bill as Democrats Drop Covid Aid (The New York Times)

Once again, Congress comes together on the main thing it can agree on — sticking it to future generations (The Washington Post)

Democrats Pass $1.5 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill After Democrat Disarray (Breitbart)

The clock is ticking: Ukraine needs more support now (The Hill)

The Violence Against Women Act is finally making a comeback (MSNBC)

Senate passes biggest-ever US military budget with unanimous Democratic support (World Socialist Web Site)

 

Biden und die USA in Europa

Biden’s Europe trip has achieved one key goal (CNN)

The President Should Avoid Public Speaking (Wall Street Journal)

Remarks by President Biden on the United Efforts of the Free World to Support the People of Ukraine (The White House)

Kampfjets zur Radarabwehr in Spangdahlem stationiert (SR)

Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby Holds a Press Briefing, March 30, 2022 (Department of Defense)

Gen. Tod Wolters testifies at United States Senate Committee on Armed Services (EUCOM)

More US troops likely to deploy to Europe amid Russia-Ukraine war, general tells senators (Stars and Stripes)

Biden and Western leaders plan new ways to punish Russia for its war in Ukraine at emergency summits (CNN)

 

Ginni Thomas und der Supreme Court
Foto: „Ginni Thomas“ (CC BY-SA 2.0) by Gage Skidmore

The political leanings of the Supreme Court justices (Axios)

Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States (The White House)

Trump Meets With Hard-Right Group Led by Ginni Thomas (The New York Times)

Exclusive: Trump’s „Deep State“ hit list (Axios)

Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court? (The New Yorker)

Virginia Thomas urged White House chief to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 election, texts show (The Washington Post)

What do Ginni Thomas‘ texts mean for Justice Thomas? At the Supreme Court, it’s up to him. (CNN)

The Supreme Court’s Clarence and Ginni Thomas Scandal Is Unprecedented (Rolling Stone)

Calls for Recusals, Resignations, and Even Impeachment: Democrats Escalate Ethics Campaign Around Clarence Thomas (Vanity Fair)

Letter by Elizabeth Warren et al. (Congress)

Ocasio-Cortez to Clarence Thomas: Resign or face impeachment (The Hill)

 

Transatlantic Treat

Bruce Willis

Foto: „Bruce Willis“ (CC BY-SA 2.0) by Gage Skidmore
Instagram-Post von Rumer Willis

Concerns about Bruce Willis’ declining cognitive state swirled around sets in recent years (LA Times)

Bruce Willis beendet wegen Krankheit Schauspielkarriere

Folge 13: Angriff auf die Ukraine, Tötungsdelikte in den USA, Buchverbot an US-Schulen und Gewerkschaften im Aufschwung 

 

(aufgenommen am 24. Februar 2022)

 

Housekeeping

• Fake it til you make it? Der Fall Elizabeth Holmes
• Online Talk: Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing

Der Krieg in der Ukraine

• Politik-Experte Sirakov: „Putin hat nicht recht“ (Rheinpfalz) (Paywall)
• Krieg in Ukraine: Wie der aktuelle Stand ist (ZDF)
• Live News Updates (New York Times)
• „Angriff im Baltikum wäre ein Weltkrieg“: Der Außenpolitikexperte David Sirakov erklärt, was Putin antreibt (Rhein-Zeitung) (Paywall)

Tötungsdelikte in den USA

• Biden turns his focus to gun violence as Democrats try to shed ‚defund the police‘ label (CNN)
• ‘We Have Not Defunded Anything’: Big Cities Boost Police Budgets (Bloomberg)
• Even as Crime Declines, Gun Violence Is Rising (The Nation)
• Examining the Spike in Murders (The New York Times)
• Anzahl der Morde in den USA dramatisch gestiegen (FAZ)
• Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods were more dangerous than ever in 2021 (Chicago Sun Times)
• Transcript: Rogé Karma Interviews Patrick Sharkey for ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ (The New York Times)
• Why rising crime isn’t breaking through as a national issue (CNN)

Buchverbot an US-Schulen

• A Tennessee school board removed the graphic novel ‚Maus,‘ about the Holocaust, from curriculum due to language and nudity concerns (CNN)
• What’s Behind The Flap About ‘Maus’ (Forbes)
• Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (NYU Press)
• Wie eine Rassismustheorie die Amerikaner polarisiert (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
• New critical race theory laws have teachers scared, confused and self-censoring (The Washington Post)
• From slavery to socialism, new legislation restricts what teachers can discuss (NPR)
• New rules are limiting how teachers can teach Black History Month (Axios)
• The critics were right: „Critical race theory“ panic is just a cover for silencing educators (Salon)
• Disputing Racism’s Reach, Republicans Rattle American Schools (The New York Times)

Gewerkschaften und Streik 

• US-Arbeitskampf: Gewerkschaftsbeitritt bei Starbucks, Massenkündigungen bei Kellogg‘s (Frankfurter Rundschau)
• Kellogg strike will end after workers agree to new contract (CNN)
• Mitarbeiter in US-Apple-Stores wollen Gewerkschaft gründen (Apple)
• Approval of Labor Unions at Highest Point Since 1965
• Taking On Starbucks, Inspired by Bernie Sanders (The New York Times)
• Some U.S. Apple Store employees are working to unionize, part of a growing worker backlash (Washington Post)
• White House task force report on worker organizing and empowerment (The White House)

Transatlantic Treat

Super Bowl Commercials 

• The best (and worst) Super Bowl commercials: Lizzo, cranky Zeus and more (NPR)

(Bildnachweis: Super Bowl LVI, Los Angeles, California Pre-Game Warm Ups, Redspork02, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LASBLVI2022.jpg)

Folge 12: Ein Jahr Präsidentschaft Joe Bidens

 

(aufgenommen am 20. Januar 2022)

 

HINWEIS: Leider hatten wir bei der Aufnahme Probleme mit dem Mikrofon von David Sirakov. Wir bitten die nicht ganz optimale Tonqualität zu entschuldigen.

 

Housekeeping

Atlantisches Forum Online: Nuclear Security and the Crisis of the European Order, 25. Januar
Online Talk: A Seat at the Table – Food in America and American Food in the World, 26. Januar

 

Ein Jahr Joe Biden

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

America must take steps now to avoid a slide into authoritarianism (Thomas Zimmer, The Guardian)
Höchste Inflation in den USA seit 1982 (Tagesschau)
Americans sour on economy amid inflation woes: AP-NORC Poll (AP News)
How unpopular is Joe Biden (Five Thirty Eight)
Biden disapproval hits new high as voters give him bad grades on economy, new CNBC/Change poll says (CNBC)
Bernie Sanders says Democrats are failing: ‘The party has turned its back on the working class’ (Guardian)
Biden had a productive year picking federal judges. The job could get tougher in 2022 (NPR)
Majority of U.S. public favors Afghanistan troop withdrawal; Biden criticized for his handling of situation (Pew Research Institute)
How Republicans became the party of Trump’s election lie after Jan. 6 (The Washington Post)
This Presidency Isn’t Turning Out as Planned (The New York Times)
Why The President’s Party Almost Always Has A Bad Midterm (FiveThirtyEight)
Some Early Clues About How The Midterms Will Go (FiveThirtyEight)
Es ist Zeit für einen transatlantischen Schulterschluss (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

 

Transatlantic Treats

Interviews 
Ein Jahr Joe Biden – Wie angezählt ist der US-Präsident? (SWR 2 Forum)
„Amerikas Demokratie ist in Gefahr“: Politikwissenschaftler David Sirakov im Interview (Rhein-Zeitung)

Blog-Post

Das erste Jahr im Amt: Hürdenlauf für Joe Biden (Sarah Wagner)