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Folge 21: Zugunglück in Ohio, Ron DeSantis und die Republikaner, Fox News vs. Dominion (aufgenommen am 28. April 2023)   Housekeeping Atlantisches Forum: Aufbruch in bessere Zeiten? Die Wahlen in der Türkei und die Zukunft der türkisch-amerikanischen Beziehungen Hybrid Talk: Energy and Energy Security Zugunglück in Ohio (Bildnachweis: iStock, OrlowskiDesign) Ron DeSantis und die Republikaner Fox News vs. Dominion (Bildnachweis: Fox News) Joe Bidens Kandidatur Alle Shownotes findet Ihr auf unserer Website.

Folge 20: Der 118. Kongress und die Republikaner, Joe Biden und die Demokraten sowie der Zustand der transatlantischen Beziehungen (aufgenommen am 7. März 2023)   Housekeeping Sounds of America Reihe Seminar: Kolonialisierung und Widerstand indigener Bevölkerungen in Nordamerika Interessante Links Der 118. Kongress – Spielraum für Störfeuer (Atlantischer Blog) What The 20 Republicans Who Voted Against Kevin McCarthy Have In Common (Fivethirtyeight) GOP hardliners score spots on powerful House Rules Committee (Axios) Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar get committee assignments (CNN) Die State of the Union 2023 – Geschichte, Traditionen und Erwartungen (Atlantischer Blog) State of the Union Ansprache (The White House) As Russian invasion nears one-year mark, partisans grow further apart on U.S. support for Ukraine (Pew Research Center) House Committee Budgets Swell as G.O.P. Plans Road Shows Across U.S. (The New York Times) How worried should we be if the debt ceiling isn’t lifted? (Brookings) Debt Limit Brinkmanship (Again) (Moody’s Analytics) Biden says he would sign GOP-led resolution blocking D.C. crime bill (The Washington Post) Lehren aus der Panzerdebatte: Deutschland-Tempo statt US-Telefonjoker (49 Security) Weitere Shownotes unter https://www.atlantische-akademie.de/aa-av-20

Folge 19: The US Mid-Term Elections: Republican Failure or Democratic Success? (aufgenommen am 9. Dezember 2022)   Housekeeping Online-Panel: Die USA und die EU nach den Midterms AMERICA ON SCREEN: Dear Sirs (OmU) Online-Talk: Susan Glasser: The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 Podcast des Amerikazentrums Hamburg “The Transatlanticist”

Folge 18: Die Vorwahlen, Teil 4, und der Ausblick auf die Zwischenwahlen 2022 (aufgenommen am 27. Oktober 2022) Housekeeping Online-Panel: Die USA vor den Zwischenwahlen Atlantic Forum: Whose Party is it Anyway? Intra-Party Politics in a Partisan Era Online-Panel: Lame Duck Presidency? Die USA nach den Zwischenwahlen Die weiteren Quellen zu unseren Themen finden Sie hier auf unserer Website.

Folge 17: Afghanistan. Ein Jahr später, Vorwahlen Teil 3, die Wasserkrise in Jackson/Mississippi und die Durchsuchung des Anwesens Donald Trumps durch das FBI   (aufgenommen am 8. September 2022)   Housekeeping Joey Harkum Duo Live in Concert: 40. Städtepartnerschaftsjubiläum zwischen Schifferstadt, RLP & Frederick, MarylandInteraktive Online-Veranstaltung: Disney als Kunst - Experimentalkino und Popkultur von Fantasia zu EncantoDie Situation der arabischen und muslimischen Minderheiten in den USA seit 9/11 Afghanistan. Ein Jahr danach Im freien Fall in die Armut (Tagesschau)USA beschlagnahmen sieben Milliarden Dollar von afghanischer Zentralbank (Deutsche Welle)International economists ask Biden to release Afghan central bank funds (Reuters)Over 70 Economists Call for Biden Administration to Return Afghanistan’s Central Bank Reserves (Center for Economic and Policy Research)Ein Debakel für die Biden-Regierung (Tagesschau)‘This Was the Albatross Around His Neck All Year’ (Politico)Afghanistan withdrawal began Biden's political slide (Axios)Democrats Are Outpacing Biden’s Standing Ahead of the Midterms. Will It Last? (Morning Consult)A year later, a look back at public opinion about the U.S. military exit from Afghanistan (Pew Research Center)A Brief Assessment of the Biden Administration’s Strategic Failures during the Afghanistan Evacuation (Report der Republikaner im Senat)Election Tracker (FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos)   Vorwahlen Teil 3 Maura Healey to face Trump-backed Republican in deep-blue Massachusetts (The Washington Post)The betting odds on the Rhode Island governor’s race (Boston Globe)High water mark for House insurgents (Axios)Of 10 Republicans Who Voted to Impeach Trump After Capitol Riot, Only 2 Might Remain in Congress (Voice of America)Incumbents defeated in state legislative elections, 2022 (Ballotpedia)Trump-Aligned Challengers Ousting GOP Legislative Incumbents (U.S. News)How Trump’s Endorsements Elevate Election Lies and Inflate His Political Power (The New York Times)Sample Ballot (Alaska Division of Elections); Ranked-choice voting (RCV) (Ballotpedia)Peltola wins U.S. House race, first woman and Alaska Native to represent Alaska in House (Idaho Capital Sun)   Wasserkrise in Jackson, Mississippi In Jackson, Miss., a water crisis has revealed the racial costs of legacy infrastructure (Brookings Institute)The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, has gotten so bad, the city temporarily ran out of bottled water to give to residents (CNN)Jackson, Mississippi Has No Safe Tap Water for the Foreseeable Future. It's a Crisis Decades in the Making (TIME Magazine)The water crisis in Jackson follows years of failure to fix an aging system (NPR)‘A profound betrayal of trust’: Why Jackson’s water system is broken (Mississippi Today)State leaders meet privately to discuss long-term solutions for Jackson water crisis (Mississippi Today)Flooding broke open Jackson's water crisis, but it can't be disentangled from race, experts say (USA Today)Trinkwasser-Versorgung in US-Stadt Jackson zusammengebrochen (Der Spiegel)How Jackson, Mississippi, ran out of water (Vox)What Climate Change Means for Mississippi (EPA) Durchsuchung von Donald Trumps Luxusanwesen Mar-a-Lago Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978 (National Archives)Trump Lawyer Told Justice Dept. That Classified Material Had Been Returned (The New York Times)A timeline of events leading up to the FBI search of Trump’s Florida estate (PBS)What Is the Espionage Act? Legal Experts Think Trump May Have Violated Law (Newsweek)Donald J. Trump v. United States of America (U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida)Documents at Mar-a-Lago Could Compromise Human Intelligence Sources, Affidavit Says (the New York Times)What we know about Trump and the empty folders (The Washington Post)What the F.B.I. Seized From Mar-a-Lago, Illustrated (The New York Times)A Timeline of Trump’s False and Misleading Statements on the Mar-a-Lago Search (The New York Times)Trump claims he declassified all the documents at Mar-a-Lago. Even if that’s true, it probably doesn’t matter. (The New York Times)‘Deeply Problematic’: Experts Question Judge’s Intervention in Trump Inquiry (the New York Times)Bill Barr Interview on Fox News (Twitter, Aaron Rupar)Aileen Cannon (Ballotpedia)

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 HolmesOnline 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 1965Taking 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)

Folge 11: Gouverneurswahlen, Covid-Politik, Facebook und Stillstand im Kongress   (aufgenommen am 4. November 2021)   Housekeeping Programm der Atlantischen Akademie   Gouverneurswahlen in Virginia Virginia governor’s race a toss-up as Election Day nears, Post-Schar School poll finds (Washington Post) Republican Glenn Youngkin wins Virginia governor’s race (Washington Post) Glenn Youngkin’s Journey From the Heights of Finance to the Top Tier of G.O.P. Politics (The New York Times) House Democratic Retirements Pile Up as Party Fears Losing Majority (The New York Times) The Unlikely Issue Shaping the Virginia Governor’s Race: Schools (The New York Times) Role and Responsibilities of School Boards (California School Boards Association) The 5 key groups fueling Youngkin’s rise (Politico) Glenn Youngkin Wants to Ban Toni Morrison’s Beloved (The New Republic) Die Geschichte eines Kampfbegriffs (Tagesschau) Zitate von Annika Brockschmidt (Twitter) You Can’t Win Elections by Telling Voters Their Concerns Are Imaginary (The Atlantic)   Covid-Politik der Biden-Administration How (un)popular is Joe Biden? (Fivethirtyeight.com) Presidential Center (Gallup) ‘Great day for America’: Vaccinated can largely ditch masks (AP News) State-by-State Guide to Face Mask Requirements (AARP) Path out of the Pandemic, (White House) Editorial: No more playing around for the unvaccinated (Los Angeles Times) Biden-Harris Administration to Expand Vaccination Requirements for Health Care Settings, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) COVID-19 Dashboard (Johns Hopkins University) Cover: Bildausschnitt von "America Needs Joe Biden" (CC BY-SA 2.0) by chaddavis.photography   Facebook und das Metaverse A whistleblower’s power: Key takeaways from the Facebook Papers (Washington Post) Was in den Leaks steht (TAZ) Mark in the Metaverse (The Verge) Ansprache Mark Zuckerberg (YouTube) Are We in the Metaverse Yet? (The New York Times) Horizon Home: Facebooks neues Metaverse-Wohnzimmer (Mixed) Facebook im Krisenmodus (Deutschlandfunk Kultur) Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies before Senate Commerce Committee (YouTube/CSPAN)   Legislative Initiativen der Demokraten American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Congress.gov) Will you get the third stimulus check? Here's how to know (CNN) Congress sends $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package to Biden's desk (CNN) Budget Reconciliation: The Basics (House Committee on Budget) 2021 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers) Public-private partnerships can't close US infrastructure gap alone (The Hill) Bridging Global Infrastructure Gap (McKinsey&Company) Here's what's in Biden's infrastructure proposal (CNN) Updated Fact Sheet: Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (White House) Böller, Florian/Lohmann, Sascha/Sirakov, David (2021): Ausmaß und Auswirkung parteipolitischer Polarisierung, in: Overhaus, Marco (Hrsg.): State of the Union. Langfristige Tendenzen in der US-Innen- und Außenpolitik und ihre Konsequenzen für Europa Here’s what is in the $1.75 trillion Biden budget plan (The Washington Post) Democrats trim Biden’s social spending plan as they rush to strike a deal this week (CNBC) House eyes vote as soon as Thursday on Biden spending plan as moderate Democrats continue to question costs (The Washington Post)   Transatlantic Treats The Social Dilemma (Netflix)  Das Dilemma mit den Sozialen Medien (Netflix) Sind wir dieser Technologie wirklich gewachsen? (FAZ)   The Battle at Hayes Pond (Charles Graham, YouTube) Charles Graham for Congress North Carolina's 9th Congressional District (Ballotpedia) Twitter Account von Charles Graham The Battle at Hayes Pond (UNCP)   2021 Chicago Council Survey 2021 Chicago Council Survey (CCGA) Biden’s ‘Foreign Policy for the Middle Class’ Is a Revolution (Foreign Policy)

Folge 10: Von Afghanistan bis Texas - Aktuelle US-News (aufgenommen am 7. September 2021) Housekeeping Online-Vortrag: Von Dumbo zur Eiskönigin – Das Walt Disney-Imperium und die Entwicklung der Zeichentrickklassiker Kinoreihe AMERICA ON SCREEN Lehren aus Afghanistan Bild: "Soldier Talks to Children While on Patro" (CC BY-NC 2.0) by Defence Images Sirakov, David (2021): Bipartisanship in Decline: Die parteipolitische Polarisierung und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Außenpolitik der USA, in: Böller, Florian/Hagemann, Steffen/Herr, Lukas D./Müller, Marcus: Weltmacht und Demokratie. Die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der USA nach der Ära Trump, Neue Amerika-Studien, Band 10, Nomos: Baden-Baden, S. 95-113. (Link) Overhaus, Marco (Hrsg.): State of the Union. Langfristige Trends in der US-amerikanischen Innen- und Außenpolitik und ihre Konsequenzen für Europa, SWP-Studie 2021/S 06, Juni 2021, S. 7-12.   Recall Governor Newsom The California Recall, Untangled (The New York Times) California Gubernatorial Recall Election (State of California) Recalling Governors: An Overview (Rutergs University) Latest Polls of the California Recall Election (FiveThirtyEight) Think California’s recall election doesn’t affect you? It really does, I’m afraid (The Guardian) Kalifornien steht vor Neuwahl (Tagesschau)   Räumungsmoratorium Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) (Congress) Website der Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Temporary Halt in Residential Evictions To Prevent the Further Spread of COVID-19 (CDC/Federal Register) Emergency Rental Assistance Program (U.S. Department of the Treasury) The Supreme Court Leaves The CDC's Moratorium On Evictions In Place (NPR) U.S. lawmakers fail to renew pandemic-related residential eviction ban (Reuters) Eviction Moratoriums Didn’t Solve the Housing Crisis (The National Review) Short-term fixes aren't enough to solve America's looming eviction crisis (CNN) Supreme Court Ends Biden’s Eviction Moratorium (The New York Times) Urteil des Supreme Court AOC on evictions: Can't blame the GOP when Democrats have the majority (CNN)   Abtreibungsrecht in Texas Key facts about the abortion debate in America (Pew Research Center) Texas verschärft Abtreibungsrecht (Frankfurter Rundschau) Texas verbietet fast alle Schwangerschaftsabbrüche (ZEIT Online) The 'shadow docket': How the U.S. Supreme Court quietly dispatches key rulings (Reuters) The “heartbeat” bills that could ban almost all abortions, explained (Vox) Why “heartbeat bill” is a misleading name for Texas’ near-total abortion ban (The Texas Tribune) Answers to questions about the Texas abortion law (The New York Times) Texas Abortion Providers Grapple with New Reality Under Restrictive Law (The Takeaway Podcast) Supreme Court Upholds New Texas Abortion Law, For Now (NPR) Mississippi asks the Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade (The New York Times) Abortion Policy in the Absence of Roe (Guttmacher Institute) What U.S. abortion access looks like, in graphics (NBC News)   Transatlantic Treats Dokumentationen “Wendepunkt: 9/11 und der Krieg gegen den Terror” (Netflix) Trailer “Wendepunkt: 9/11 und der Krieg gegen den Terror” (Netflix) Review “Wendepunkt” (The Daily Beast)   “The Battle For Marjah” (HBO) Trailer “The Battle For Marjah” (HBO/YouTube) Review “The Battle for Marjah” (The New York Times) For Those Who Fought In Marjah, It Was More Than Just A Battle (Task and Purpose) 

Folge 9: Interview mit der scheidenden Generalkonsulin der USA in Frankfurt/Main, Patricia Lacina   (aufgenommen am 14. Juli 2021)   Housekeeping 24. Atlantischer Sommer: Nach Trump und Afghanistan. Die NATO und die transatlantischen SicherheitsbeziehungenAmazon, Airbnb, Uber - Digitale Ökosystemen aus den USA: Bedeutung für die Region und Deutschland   US-Generalkonsulin in Frankfurt/Main, Patricia Lacina Biographie auf den Seiten der US-Vertretungen in Deutschland

Folge 8: „The Atlantic Hour“ des DAI Sachsen: Was bedeutet transatlantische Bildungsarbeit?   (aufgenommen am 15. Juni 2021)   Housekeeping Online-Themenabend: Was können wir von Nationalparks lernen? Naturgewalten und Klimawandel auf beiden Seiten des AtlantiksOnline-Vortrag: Queerness in der US-PopkulturAtlantisches Forum Online: Neuanfang in Israel? Israel, der israelisch-palästinensische Konflikt und die Beziehungen zu den USA   Transatlantische Bildungsarbeit Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Sachsen in LeipzigBecker, Benjamin et al. (2021): Transatlantisch? Traut Euch! Für eine Neue Übereinkunft zwischen Deutschland und AmerikaZwingenberger, Meike/Becker, Benjamin (2021): Transatlantische Beziehungen neu gedacht: Public Diplomacy vermittelt wichtige Zukunftsthemen (Transatlantische Impulse)Amerikahäuser (Historisches Lexikon Bayern)Orte für Amerika (Reinhild Kreis, open access!)Es war einmal im Amerikahaus (Tagesspiegel)Diskussionspapier: A Profile of Non-formal Youth Civic Education in Germany: Inspiration for a Reimagined Civic Learning Infrastructure (Arbeitskreis deutscher Bildungsstätten e.V.)Kennst du Lautern? Amerikahaus ab 1952 gut besucht (Gerhard Westenburger, Die Rheinpfalz)Sirakov, David /Wagner, Sarah (2018): Untergang der liberalen Weltordnung? Die Außenpolitik von Donald Trump in der außerschulischen politischen Bildung (Journal für politische Bildung)

Folge 7: Die Politisierung des US-Militärs und die Waffenlobby NRA   (aufgenommen am 27. Mai 2021)   Housekeeping Atlantisches Forum Online: The Lasting Impact of the Tea Party on the GOPOnline-Seminar: Energieversorgung in EuropaVortrag: Mütter, Straßenkämpferinnen, Strateginnen: Die Rollen weißer Frauen in White Supremacy Newsstories Polizeireform in den USA Wie der Tod von George Floyd und Black Lives Matter die USA veränderten (Frankfurter Rundschau)How George Floyd Was Killed in Police Custody (The New York Times)Democrats, About to Miss a Police Reform Deadline, Hold Out Hope (The New York Times)Just one Republican backed the George Floyd police overhaul bill. He ‘accidentally pressed the wrong voting button.’ (Washington Post)Qualified Immunity (Cornell Law School)Qualified Immunity Letter (Members of Congress)Police officers are prosecuted for murder in less than 2 percent of fatal shootings (Vox)Possible movement on police reform encouraging, but qualified immunity should be codified (The Hill)Massive 1-Year Rise In Homicide Rates Collided With The Pandemic In 2020 (NPR) Die Abwahl Liz Cheneys und die Degeneration der Republikanischen Partei H.Res.24 - Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors (U.S. Congress)I Will Vote To Impeach The President (Website Rep. Liz Cheney)9 witnesses who could have offered vital testimony at Trump’s impeachment trial (The Washington Post)Liz Cheney: The GOP is at a turning point. History is watching us. (The Washington Post)Rep. Liz Cheney: "Our Freedom Only Survives If We Protect It" (C-SPAN)Aufstieg einer glühenden Trumpistin (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) Deep Dives Die Politisierung des US-Militärs Tweet von Ted Cruz (Twitter)Public confidence in scientists has remained stable for decades (Pew Research Center)Former military leaders criticized the election and the administration. That hurts the military’s reputation. (Washington Post)The Calling (U.S. Army)Fighting Weight: How Military Recruiters Take On Obesity, Case By Case (NPR)Comment section removed from Army recruiting ad featuring soldier with two moms (Army Times)Sen. Ted Cruz insulted a ‘woke, emasculated’ U.S. Army ad. Angry veterans fired back. (Washington Post)Pandemic and political discourse challenge Army recruiting efforts (Army Times)‘Support Our Troops’ No Longer Automatic as Trust in Military Falls (Bloomberg)Crisis of Command. America’s Broken Civil-Military Relationship Imperils National Security (Foreign Affairs) Aufstieg und Niedergang der National Rifle Association (NRA) Smyth, Frank: The NRA. The Unauthorized HistoryBreaking down the NRA-backed theory that a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun (abcNEWS)Die Iran-Contra-Affäre (Deutsche Welle)Klageschrift der Staatsanwaltschaft New YorkAmerica’s Complex Relationship with Guns (Pew Research Center)What Percentage of Americans Own Guns? (Gallup)The Crumbling of the N.R.A. (Podcast “The Daily”, New York Times)NRA zerlegt sich selbst. Nutzt Biden die Krise der Waffenlobby? (Podcast „Wieder was gelernt“, n-tv)Key facts about Americans and guns (Pew Research Center)FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Initial Actions to Address the Gun Violence Public Health Epidemic (The White House) Transatlantic Treat Masters of War Bob Dylan - Masters of War (Audio)Listen to The Roots' Epic Cover of Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" (Paste Magazine)"Triple Frontier": Zu fünft gegen den Rest der Welt (GQ Magazin)Triple Frontier review – military vets steal big in solid Netflix action thriller (The Guardian)Triple Frontier Trailer (Netflix)

Folge 6: 100 Tage Biden -Administration   (aufgenommen am 28. April 2021)   Housekeeping Atlantisches Forum Online: NATO and Transatlantic RelationsQAnon & Co. - Rechte Verschwörungsmythen im Zuge der Corona-Pandemie   Quellen Refugee cap Biden administration touted — then ditched — is back on table (Washington Post)‘The wheels fell off’: How Biden’s misgivings on border surge upended plan on refugees (Washington Post)Sean Spicer Raises Outcry With Talk of Hitler, Assad and Poison Gas (The New York Times)Biden Nears 100-Day Mark With Strong Approval, Positive Rating for Vaccine Rollout (Pew Research Institute)The Sullivan Model (Foreign Policy)Remarks by President Biden at the 2021 Virtual Munich Security Conference (The White House)How Biden United a Fractious Party Under One Tent (The New York Times)Joe Bidens Präsidentschaftsauftakt: Hundert Tage Atempause (RND)100 Tage Präsidentschaft Joe Biden. Alter Mann macht Tempo (TAZ) Biden Underpromises, Overdelivers (The New York Times) Joe Biden's Cabinet: Who’s in, and who voted against them (Politico) The Biden 100-Day Progress Report (Foreign Policy)At the 100-day mark, has Biden kept his campaign promises? (The Washington Post) Hinweis Aufzeichnung unserer Online-Diskussion: Restoring Transatlantic Relations. Sicherheitspolitik

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 MovementThe 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 ProgressH.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) HousekeepingOnline-Vortrag: Transatlantische Beziehungen unter Joe Biden News StoriesLiz Cheney und Marjorie Taylor GreeneStatement 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 McConnellSenate 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 FilibusterThe 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. BipartisanshipDemocrats, 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 TreatFraming 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