Folge 5: Gewerkschaftsgründung bei Amazon und die Wahlrechtsreformen der US-Bundesstaaten

 

(aufgenommen am 31. März 2021)

 

Housekeeping

• Online-Conversation: TV Thursday – Serial Politics

 

Newsstories

Child Tax Credit 

• A Safety Net for American Children (Podcast, The Daily, New York Times)
•  To Juice the Economy, Biden Bets on the Poor (The New York Times)
•  New child tax credit could slash poverty now and boost social mobility later (Brookings Institute)
•  The Biden Child Allowance: Examining the Impact of Welfare on Work (The Heritage Foundation)
•  The Child Tax Credit: Temporary Expansion for 2021 Under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA; P.L. 117-2) (Congressional Research Service)
• Coverbild: Congressional Research Service

 

Millionenklage gegen die Ex-Trump Anwältin Sidney Powell

• Fact-Checking Falsehoods on Mail-In Voting (The New York Times)
• Trump’s Repeated False Attacks on Mail-In Ballots (FactCheck.org)
• Sharp Divisions on Vote Counts, as Biden Gets High Marks for His Post-Election Conduct, 3. The voting experience in 2020 (PewResearchCenter)
• Lou Dobbs, and the most problematic claims Trump allies made about voting machines (The Washington Post)
• Sidney Powell’s Tucker Carlson-esque defense: ‘Reasonable people’ wouldn’t take her wild voter-fraud claims as fact (The Washington Post)
• Dominion Voting sues Trump lawyer Powell for defamation, seeking $1.3 billion in damages (CNN)
• After Lawsuit Against Fox News, Here’s Who Dominion Has Sued So Far—And Who Could Be Next (Forbes)
• Sidney Powell: Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss

 

Deep Dives
Gewerkschaften und Amazon

• Ihr Kampf könnte Geschichte schreiben (ZEIT Online)
• Today Explained: Alabama shakes up Amazon (Vox Podcast)
• On the Overnight Shift with the Amazon Union Organizers (The New Yorker)
• ‘Taking on a behemoth like Amazon is going to take an army.’ Labor unions, inspired by Alabama drive, are joining the fight nationwide. (Chicago Tribune)
• Don’t be fooled: Joe Biden is no friend of unions (The Guardian)
• Inside Joe Biden’s decision to dive into the Amazon union drive (Politico)
• Biden Needs Unions to Force His Hand (The Atlantic)
• Martin Thunert, Hyper-Pluralismus? Die Welt der Interessengruppen, Gewerkschaften, Lobbyisten und Think Tanks, in: Handbuch Politik USA, Springer VS, 2016. 
• Sanierung des bröckelnden Tarifsystems? Gewerkschaften und Arbeitsbeziehungen in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung)
• Union Members 2020 (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• Most Americans view unions favorably, though few workers belong to one (Pew Research Institute)
• Video von Joe Biden (Twitter)
•  House Democrats Pass Bill That Would Protect Worker Organizing Efforts (NPR)
•  Fired, interrogated, disciplined: Amazon warehouse organizers allege year of retaliation (NBC News)
•  Coverbild: Unsplash

 

Wahlrechtsreformen der US-Bundesstaaten (Georgia)

•  Who runs elections in the United States? (Ballotpedia)
•  Philipp Adorf: Hindernisse auf dem Weg zur Wahl (BpB)

• Article I, Section. 4. U.S Constitution (National Archives)
• The Constitution: Amendments 11-27 (National Archives)
• Congress and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (National Archives)
• Shelby County v. Holder (Supreme Court of the United States)
• Supreme Court Invalidates Key Part of Voting Rights Act (The New York Times)
• America Votes by 50 Sets of Rules. We Need a Federal Elections Agency (The New York Times)
• Scot Schraufnagel, Michael J. Pomante II, and Quan Li: Cost of Voting in the American States: 2020 (Election Law Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4)
• Voting and Elections (State of Oregon)
• Elections (Georgia Secretary of State)
• Analyzing the Relationship Between Cost of Voting and Partisan Lean (Montgomery Blair High School)
• What Does Georgia’s New Voting Law SB 202 Do? (Georgia Public Broadcasting)
• For the People Act of 2021 (Congress.gov)
• House Democrats’ massive voting rights bill, explained (Vox)
• Georgia’s shameful new voting laws are a product of GOP desperation (The Washington Post)
• Georgia’s restrictive new voting law, explained (Vox)
• ‘Jim Eagle’ and Georgia’s Voting Law (The Wall Street Journal)
• Joe Biden Botches the Georgia Voting Law (National Review)

 

Transatlantic Treats 

Which Side Are You On?

• Which Side Are You On? (Florence Reece)
• Which Side Are You On? (Natalie Merchant)
• Which Side Are You On? (Dropkick Murphys)
• Coverbild: Unsplash

Folge 4:  US-Truppenpräsenz in Deutschland und der Green New Deal der Demokraten

 

(aufgenommen am 11. März 2021)

 

Housekeeping

·      Online-Talk: Hate in the Homeland. How to Understand and Combat Far-Right Extremism

·      Screening and Conversation: Ground Control to Madame Mars: The Future of Diversity in Space

·      Online Teachers Seminar: What will the future look like? The United States in 2021 and beyond

 

Newsstories

Erik Prince und der Umsturzversuch in Libyen

• Erik Prince, Trump Ally, Violated Libya Arms Embargo, U.N. Report Says (The New York Times)
• Blueprint for a raid: Documents shed light on plan to buy U.S. helicopter gunships for assault on Tripoli (The Washington Post)
• PROJECT OPUS: Erik Prince and the Failed Plot to Arm a CIA Asset-Turned-Warlord in Libya (The Intercept)
• Blackwater von Jeremy Scahill (Perlentaucher)
• Privatisierung von Krieg? Problemfelder des Einsatzes Privater Militär- und Sicherheitsfirmen in der modernen Kriegführung (Schneiker/Krahmann in APUZ 35-36/2016)
• Fotolizenz: ”Reading” (CC BY 2.0) by Osbornb

 

Energieversorgung in Texas

• No, frozen wind turbines aren’t the main culprit for Texas’ power outages (The Texas Tribune)
• AP PHOTOS: Winter storms spread power and water woes (Associated Press) 
• Report on outages and curtailments during the Southwest cold weather event (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Report 2011) 
• His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752 (New York Times)
• Texas disaster puts Beto O’Rourke back in business (Politico)
• Texas After the Storm (New York Times, The Daily Podcast)

 

Deep Dives
US-Truppenpräsenz in Deutschland

·      Die Entwicklung der Personalstärke der US-Streitkräfte und ihrer deutschen Zivilangestellten seit dem Jahr 1985 in Deutschland – insbesondere in der Westpfalz und in der Kaiserslautern Military Community (Wissenschaftliche Dienste des Deutschen Bundestages)

·      Tweet vom ehemaligen US-Botschafter in Berlin Richard Grenell vom 8. August 2019

·      Gegenwart und Zukunft der US-Militärpräsenz in Deutschland (Atlantischer Blog, 22. August 2019)

·      Trump to Pull Thousands of U.S. Troops From Germany (Wall Street Journal)

·      U.S. lawmakers hammer Pentagon over lack of detail on Germany troop cuts

·      Senate Overrides Trump’s Veto of Defense Bill, Dealing a Legislative Blow

·      Remarks by President Biden at the 2021 Virtual Munich Security Conference (The White House)

 

Green New Deal

• Zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Green New Deal – Revival eines Begriffs (Heinrich Böll Stiftung)
• The Sunrise Movement
• The Green New Deal, explained (Vox)
• Democrats Establish a New House ‘Climate Crisis’ Committee (The Atlantic)
• A GREEN NEW DEAL: A Progressive Vision for Environmental Sustainability and Economic Stability (Data for Progress
• H.Res.109 – Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal. (Congress)
• What Is the Green New Deal? A Climate Proposal, Explained (The New York Times)
• The Surprising Origins Of What Could Be The ‘Medicare For All’ Of Climate Change (Huffington Post)
• Was Umweltökonomen gegen Ocasio-Cortez‘ „Green New Deal“ haben (Das Handelsblatt)
• Vom New Deal der 1930er-Jahre lernen (Deutschlandfunk Kultur)
• Stanford energy and environment experts examine strengths and weaknesses of the Green New Deal (Stanford News)
• Senate defeats Green New Deal, as Democrats call vote a ‘sham’ (Washington Post) 
• Der Green New Deal zeigt die Spaltung der Demokraten (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

 

Transatlantic Treats 

Renegades: Born in the USA

·      Podcast Video Trailer (Spotify, YouTube)

·      Podcast (Spotify)

 

Ms. Marvel Comic

• What The New Ms. Marvel Means For Muslims In Comics (NPR)
• Ms. Marvel: Hauptdarstellerin für Disney+ Serie gefunden (Cinema)
• How Kamala Khan Becomes an Avenger! (Marvel, YouTube)

Folge 3 „Filibuster und Unity vs. Bipartisanship“
(aufgenommen am 15. Februar 2021)

Housekeeping

Online-Vortrag: Transatlantische Beziehungen unter Joe Biden

News Stories

Liz Cheney und Marjorie Taylor Greene

Statement von Liz Cheney (via Politico)

Podcast The Daily (New York Times)

Adorf, Philipp (2019): Die Republikanische Partei in den USA (UTB Verlag)

 

How the “QAnon Candidate” Marjorie Taylor Greene Reached the Doorstep of Congress (The New Yorker)

 

Das Impeachment-Verfahren und Mitch McConnell

Senate Roll Call Vote No. 33, “A resolution impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors”, February 5, 2020. 

 

Senate Roll Call Vote No. 59, “A resolution impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors”, February 13, 2021. 

 

McConnell’s full remarks following Senate vote to acquit Trump (NBC News)

 

Quick end to impeachment leaves some questions about Trump’s Jan. 6 actions unanswered (The Washington Post)

 

Deep Dive: Der Filibuster

The History of the Filibuster (Brookings Institute)

Biden Won’t Budge on the Senate Filibuster. Why Aren’t Progressives Pushing Him? (The New York Times)

5 ideas to reform the filibuster that Joe Manchin might actually support (Vox)

What is the Senate filibuster, and what would it take to eliminate it? (Brookings Institute)

Cloture Motions (U.S. Senate)

History of the word “Filibuster” (NPR)

The Senate Filibuster Is Another Monument to White Supremacy (The Atlantic)

Brief der Senator*innen zum Erhalt des Filibusters, 2017

Opinion: Democrats have vigorously used the filibuster. It’s pathetic they now won’t pledge to protect it. (Washington Post)

Joe Biden May Have Only 2 Years to Get Things Done (The New York Times)

Deep Dive: Unity vs. Bipartisanship

Democrats, Here’s How to Lose in 2022. And Deserve It. (The New York Times)

Republicans Have Decided Not to Rethink Anything (New York Magazine)

Why Megyn Kelly and some other conservatives are resisting calls for unity (Deseret News)

Joe Biden had a choice: Go big or go bipartisan. He opted for big (Los Angeles Times)

How Biden Plans to Beat Republican Obstructionism (The Atlantic)

Biden draws distinction between ‘unity’ and ‘bipartisanshp’ (The Washington Post)

Lee, Frances E. (2016): Insecure Majorities. Congress and the Perpetual Campaign, Chicago, IL.

Transatlantic Treat

Framing Britney Spears exposes the contradictions of American womanhood (The Guardian)

Is Britney Spears Ready to Stand on Her Own? (The New York Times)

Alle haben an Britney Spears verdient (Der Spiegel)

Folge 2 „Polarisierung und Einwanderung“ 
(aufgenommen am 28. Januar 2021)

 

Housekeeping

6. Februar 2021: Youth Exchange Fair – Die Info-Messe rund um Auslandsaufenthalte in den USA

 

9. Februar 2021: Fireside Chat with John B. Emerson: The Power of Diplomacy

 

News Stories

News: Bestätigung der Biden-Nominierten 

Biden Key Role Tracker (Washington Post)

 

Here’s where President Biden’s Cabinet nominees stand
(CNN)

 

Confirmation process for Joe Biden’s Cabinet nominees
(Ballotpedia)

 

Confirmation process overview for Donald Trump’s Cabinet
nominees (Ballotpedia)

 

Bildnachweis: Antony Blinken in 2015

 

News: Exekutivanordnungen 

Executive Orders (Federal Register)

 

The American Presidency Project

 

Bildnachweis: Federal Register

 

Deep Dive

Deep Dive: Polarisierung

CS DW NOMINATE (voteview.com)

 

Sirakov, David (2020): Polarisierung, in: Lammert,
Christian/Siewert, Markus B./Vormann, Boris (Hrsg.): Handbuch Politik USA,
Wiesbaden, S. 365-385.

 

Kupchan, Charles A./Trubowitz, Peter L. (2007): Dead
Center: The Demise of Liberal Internationalism in the United States, in:
International Security, 32:2, S. 7–44.

 

Chaudoin, Stephen/Milner, Helen V./Tingley, Dustin H.
(2007): The Center Still Holds. Liberal Internationalism Survives, in:
International Security, 35:1, S. 75–94.

 

Russell Mead, Walter (2021): The End of the Wilsonian Era
Why Liberal Internationalism Failed, in: Foreign Affairs, 100:1, S. 123-137.

 

Treaty between the United States of America and the
Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of
Strategic Offensive Arms, signed in Prague on April 8, 2010, with Protocol
(U.S. Senate)

 

Russland verkündet Einigung
mit den USA über Abrüstungsvertrag (Die Zeit)

 

Bildnachweis: David Sirakov mittels Daten des CS DW NOMINATE.

 

Deep Dive: Einwanderungspolitik

U.S. Citizenship Act 2021

 

Pew Research Center Umfrage zum Thema Immigration

 

“Biden open to breaking his immigration bill into pieces“ (Politico)

 

DHS Agreement mit den Einzelstaaten (Mercury News)

 

Buch: No Man’s Land, Leben an der mexikanischen Grenze (BpB)

 

Bildnachweis: Canva

 

Transatlantic Treat

Netflix-Dokumentation, Immigration Nation

Besprechung der Dokumentation (New York Times)

 

Rezension der Dokumentation (Zeit Online)

 

Immigration Nation (Trailer auf YouTube)

 

Bildnachweis: Atlantische Akademie RLP

Folge 1 „Wehrhaftigkeit und Verletzlichkeit“
(aufgenommen am 13. Januar 2021)

Begrüßung

Housekeeping

Online-Panel: Restoring Transatlantic Relations – Eine Agenda für die kommenden Jahre, Dienstag, 19. Januar 2021, 18.00-19.15 Uhr, Online via ClickMeeting

Atlantisches Forum Online: Populismus—eine Gefahr für die Demokratie?, Dienstag, 26. Januar 2021, 18.00-19.30 Uhr, Online via ClickMeeting

News stories

Diskussion um General Austin:

DefenseNews – US Congress Passes Waiver for Mattis to Lead Pentagon

 

The Atlantic – Joe Biden: Why I Chose Lloyd Austin as Secretary of Defense

 

New York Times – Biden’s Pentagon pick reignites debate over civilian control of military

 

Verteidigungshaushalt:

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021

 

Presidential Veto Message to the House of Representatives for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021

 

DefenseNews – Congress overrides Trump veto of defense bill

 

Extremismus im US-Militär:

MilitaryTimes – Signs of white supremacy, extremisim up again in poll of active-duty troops

 

Politico – The military has a hate group problem. But it doesn’t know how bad it’s gotten

 

Secretary of Defense – Actions to Improve Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Inclusion in the U.S. Military

 

Congress.gov – Alarming Incidents of White Supremacy in the Military – How to Stop It?

 

Widerstandsfähigkeit der US-Demokratie:

The Guardian – America’s flawed democracy: the five key areas where it is failing

 

New York Times – 2016 Presidential Election Results

 

New York Times – 2020 Presidential Election Results

 

Loyola Law School – Änderungen föderaler und einzelstaatlicher Wahldistrikte

 

Daniel McGlone and Esther Needham – The Most Gerrymandered States Ranked by Efficiency Gap and Seat Advantage

 

New York Times – Ivanka Trump Wins China Trademarks, Then Her Father Vows to Save ZTE

 

Business Insider – Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner earned at least $36 million in outside income in 2019

 

Congressional Research Service – the Emoluments Clauses of the U.S. Constitution

 

Constitutional Accountability Center – Blumenthal, et al. v. Trump – Holding President Trump accountable for his violations of the Foreign Emoluments Clause.

 

Trump White House Flickr – Picture: President Trump Watches as U.S. Special Operations Forces Close in on ISIS Leader

 

Verletzlichkeit der US Gesellschaft:

United States Department of Agriculture – Food security in the US

 

Feeding America – The Impact of the Coronavirus on Food Insecurity in 2020 (October 2020)

 

The Washington Post – A growing number of Americans are going hungry

 

Heinrich Böll Stiftung – Der CARES Act – die wirtschaftliche Antwort auf die Coronavirus-Verwerfungen in den USA

 

Stuftung Wissenschaft und Politik – Verletzliche Staaten von Amerika – Die Covid-19-Pandemie als Hypothek für die Zukunft

 

The Washington Post – Stealing to survive: More Americans are shoplifting food as aid runs out during the pandemic

 

Jeehoon Han, Bruce D. Meyer, James X. Sullivan – Real-time Poverty Estimates During the COVID-19 Pandemic through November 2020

 

The New York Times Podcast – A Day at the Food Pantry