Carl Friedrich

Articles by Carl Friedrich

Did postal voting cost the AfD its absolute majority?

The eagerly awaited state election in Saxony-Anhalt has barely ended, and already an unsettling suspicion is circulating: could it be that postal voting has cost the AfD its absolute majority?

The Man Who Knows How to Break the Bank

A country can survive a great many sins. It cannot forever survive the habit of placing the public currency in the hands of people who have spent their lives treating other people’s currencies as prey.

Blacks Only at Berlin’s Public Pool

The discrimination against native Germans in favor of immigrants is entering its next phase. Now, simply privileging migrants – for example, by allocating housing at taxpayers' expense – is no longer sufficient.

The House Always Wins: Inside the 2026 World Cup’s Accountability Meltdown

FIFA promised the world the biggest, most accessible World Cup in history. What it delivered instead is a case study in what happens when one organization controls a global obsession and answers to absolutely no one.

What is the ‘Revolution of the Flamingos’ really about?

Overshadowed by other major geopolitical conflicts, the mass protests in Albania, which have been ongoing for weeks, have mostly received only marginal attention in the mainstream media.

Belfast: Censor First, Govern Never

As Belfast is burning, the British government's first instinct is to reach not for answers, but for a muzzle.

The Shadow Financiers of the Left Finally Exposed

At long last, there are signs of real movement in the fight against the dark-money networks propping up far-left extremism.

The Neocon Who Blinked

For decades, Robert Kagan has been among the loudest, most relentless architects of the ideology that brought us here — the belief that American military supremacy, deployed without hesitation and without limit, could reshape the world in Washington's image.

What Has a War Costing Over $280 Billion Achieved?

Forty days in, the numbers tell a story that no press briefing will

Wave of National Elections Reshaping the EU

While German politicians still cling to the "firewall" against the AfD, Brussels has long since moved on – the AfD now plays an accepted political role there.