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LdN494 What do we still need the ZDF for? (Norbert Himmler, ZDF Director-General)

LdN493 Attack of the Agents: Can AI Really Wipe Out Humanity?

LdN492 Sachsen-Anhalt: How do right-wing extremists come to power?

LdN491 War Against Germany: What to Do Against Russia's Attack?

LdN490 Pacifism: Can Putin Really Be Driven Out of Ukraine with Song? (Olaf L. Müller, Professor of Philosophy)

LdN489 Right-Wing Extremism & Climate Deniers: How Neutral Does School Have to Be? (Inga Feuser, Teachers for Future) - Part 2

LdN488 Climate Democracy: Why School Needs to Be Rethought (Inga Feuser, Teachers for Future) - Part 1

LdN487 Waiting times & competition from AI: Can psychotherapy still be saved? (Prof. Eva-Lotta Brakemeier, psychologist) - Part 2

LdN486 Psychology and Politics: How We Need to Talk to AfD Voters (Prof. Eva-Lotta Brakemeier, Psychologist) - Part 1

LdN485 The "Mafia State": What you should know about Russia (Gesine Dornblüth, Eastern Europe journalist)

LdN484 Reform: Government Saved by Pensions?

LdN483 "Lügenfritz": Are We Sacrificing Freedom of Speech to Protect Politicians?

LdN482 Myth of Neutrality: How Administrations Can Stand Up to the AfD

LdN481 BaföG Debacle: Why the government isn't investing in young people

LdN480 Twilight of the Chancellor: Will Merz Really Be Toppled?

LdN479 Saxony-Anhalt: How the AfD could swing the state to the right

LdN478 Hantavirus: Why We're Worse Off Today Than Before Corona

LdN477 What you should know about China (Marina Rudyak, Sinologist, Uni Heidelberg/Yale)

LdN476 Olympics: Why we should treat ourselves to this expensive vacation

LdN475 Energy Crisis: Is Kerosene Really Running Scarce?

LdN474 Propaganda: Reiche Deceives with Correct Numbers

LdN473 New Conscription: Why Can the State Not Only Deny Men Exit—but Also Their Passport?

LdN472 Gallows, but only for Palestinians: Is the death penalty in Israel racist?

LdN471 Digital Violence: How Can Women Be Better Protected?

LdN470 Lage Live: 10 Years of Lage der Nation (with Ricarda Lang)

LdN469 Weimer’s Republic: How the Minister of State Turns Culture into a Litmus Test of Conviction - and Why the State Should Also Fund Extreme Art

LdN468 Dead Mullahs: Does the End Really Justify the Means, Mr. Merz?

LdN467 Gas Lobby Celebrates in the Boiler Room: Why the Government Is Sabotaging Climate Protection – and Will Fail Because of It

LdN466 Epstein Files: Why Hardly Anyone Is Investigating – Despite Hundreds of Victims (Co-Host: Anne Will)

LdN465 Greetings from Kafka: How Authorities Drive Entrepreneur Marco Scheel to Despair & How Administration Can Improve

LdN464 Coalition clashes over wealth distribution: Is an inheritance tax for the rich coming?

LdN463 Welfare State, but Properly: Why This Reform Can Save Us

LdN462 Trump Wants Greenland - and Gets Cold Feet, Canada’s Premier Shows the Way, EU Parliament Hits the Brakes on Mercosur Agreement, How Can Europe Survive the New World Order?, Lage Seeks Sales Pro, Criticism of EV Subsidy, Kennzeichen-E: The Podcast for Electric Mobility, Lagebilder Are Back, Feedback: Digital Sovereignty

LdN461 Can a River Have Rights of Its Own? (Roda Verheyen, Lawyer), Part 2

LdN460 What Good Are Climate Lawsuits? (Roda Verheyen, Lawyer), Part 1

LdN459 Ukraine Diplomacy in Berlin, Russia's Frozen Billions, EU Commission Wants to Allow Combustion Engines After 2035, "Lage Live" Sold Out, Job Posting: Lage Seeks Sales Pro, Feedback: Conscientious Objection and Military Service, Are the Left Turning Away from Solidarity? (Prof. Steffen Mau, Sociologist, HU Berlin), Digital Sovereignty feat. Mastodon

LdN458 New US Security Strategy, Military Service or Just "Piss Off"?, Age Limit for Social Media, Correction: Midwives, Feedback: Climate Club, Consumer Tip for Getting Off Gas, How Resilient Is the German Judiciary?

LdN457 Pension Showdown, Trump Orders Murders, Trump Threatens Venezuela with War, Police Protection for AfD in Gießen, Merz Equates Demonstrators with AfD, Midwife Pay Endangers Obstetrics, Feedback on Gas Heating, EU Wants to End Gas Imports from Russia, Investigations into Financial Crimes Not Made Harder After All

LdN456 Trump's colonialist "peace plan", dispute over Russia's frozen billions, future of the UN climate conferences (Jennifer Morgan, Hertie School), job centers communicating by app, complaints against the postal service, resistance to pension reform, gas price will explode, what tenants can do about gas heating

LdN455 Pension Dispute Endangers the Government, Can't Merz Be Chancellor?, Union Considers Minority Government, Fraud with AI Books, Endometriosis and Gender Medicine, Feedback on Citizen's Income, WERO as a European PayPal Alternative

LdN454 Yet Another Climate Conference, Why Is Germany Holding Back on Climate Protection? Revolt Against Bürgergeld Reform, Special Infrastructure Fund Fizzles Out, Conscription Screening Instead of Compulsory Service, Callout: Would You Join the Bundeswehr? Feedback on BioNTech, the Netherlands & Mamdani

LdN453 (Co-Host: Anne Will) Trump opponent Mamdani becomes mayor of New York, D66 election victory in the Netherlands, What can the SPD learn from this?, Debate over the CDU's course, Compass Mitte (Interview Monica Wüllner, CDU), Chat control failed for now, Corona triage unconstitutional

LdN452 How Can Growth Be Generated Now? (Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Berlin Social Science Center), Part 2

LdN451 Does change foster populists? (Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung), Part 1

LdN450 What Is Sexual Violence? Stefanie Hubig, Federal Minister of Justice

LdN449 What Will Become of Trump's Gaza Plan?, Two Years After the October Massacre (Meron Mendel, Director of the Anne Frank Educational Center), Unrest Rules France, Chat Control Unnecessarily Endangers Civil Rights, Feedback Migration

LdN448 Trump Plan Torpedoes Two-State Solution, Drone Defense for Germany, Why Are Refugee Numbers Falling? (Gerald Knaus, Migration Researcher), Elections in Syria (Kristin Helberg, Sophia Maier), German State Company Buys Gas in Russia, Why Merz Isn't Catching Fire, Your Crisis Strategies

LdN447 Trump Surprises with Ukraine Forecast, What's the Point of Recognizing Palestine?, Your Take on the State of the World, New Rail Strategy (Dirk Flege, Allianz Pro Schiene), Kimmel is back, Economics Minister Copies from RWE and eon, How You Make Money with Electricity

LdN446 Charlie Kirk and Trump's Path to Autocracy, AfD Wins in NRW Local Elections, Russland Tests EU and NATO with Drones, EU States Buy Gas and Oil in Russland, Call: How Are You Coping with the State of the World? Reiche's 10-Point Plan for the Energy Transition, Labor Shortage Slows the Economy

LdN445 Union Fights Combustion-Engine Phase-Out, E-Cars at the IAA (Christina Kunkel, SZ Auto Expert), Climate Penalties Not from KTF After All, Problems with the "Active Pension", Costly Gaps in Inheritance Tax, France's Government Toppled (Nadia Pantel, Spiegel)

LdN444 Autumn of Reforms, Taxes Up and Welfare State Down, Lage Seeks Accountant, Billions for Climate Penalties Instead of Climate Protection, Pension Reform Reforms Nothing, Return of Conscription, Jens Spahn and His Profiteers

LdN443 Why Do Farmers Get an Unconditional Basic Income - and Destroy Biodiversity? (Christine Chemnitz, Agora Agrar)

LdN442 How We Save Our Children - and What Schools Need to Change (Aladin El-Mafaalani, Sociologist) - Part 2

LdN441 Society Is Aging - Why More Children Would Still Do Harm (Aladin El-Mafaalani, Sociologist) - Part 1

LdN440 How can our welfare state be reformed? (Katja Robinson, Professor of Legal Foundations of Social Professions)

LdN439 How can Ukraine win the war against Russia - and what does that have to do with us? (Gustav Gressel, political scientist) - Part 2

LdN438 How Does the Bundeswehr Become Ready to Defend Again? (Gustav Gressel, Political Scientist) - Part 1

LdN437 When will rents be affordable again? (Verena Hubertz, Federal Building Minister, SPD)

LdN436 Israel Attacks Iran, Government Plans Tax Cuts (Interview Veronika Grimm, Economic Advisor), Private Individuals May Trade Electricity

LdN435 Spahn's Mask Millions, Protests in L.A., Trump vs. Musk, Bizarre Berlin Party Donations (Prof. Sophie Schönberger, Universität Düsseldorf), UN Ocean Conference (Jule Reimer, Deutschlandfunk)

LdN434 Federal Government Ignores Court, Far-Right New President of Poland (Kornelia Kończal, Uni Bielefeld), How Municipalities Boost Acceptance of Wind Turbines, Inequality Endangers Democracy (Martyna Linartas, Author), Correction: Bundeswehr and Google Cloud

LdN433 Merz criticizes Israel, Russia’s hybrid war, Kretschmer wants to reactivate Nord Stream, Bundeswehr bets on Google Cloud, Microsoft blocks email access for the ICC chief prosecutor, mobility transition in Paris, Ulf at re:publica

LdN432 Trump Calls Putin, Are We Working Too Little?, Presidential Election in Poland (Martin Adam, ARD Correspondent), Smartphone Bans in Schools

LdN431 Merz pulls off chancellor speech, Merz botches Ukraine ultimatum, turnbacks at borders without legal basis, Trump's attacks on US universities (Prof. Rüdiger Bachmann, Notre Dame), AfD Verfassungsschutz report leaked, Linkspartei's critique of capitalism unconstitutional?

LdN430 Merz chancellor after 2nd ballot, SPD ministers, Why Israel wants to occupy the Gaza Strip (Ofer Waldman, Journalist), AfD confirmed far-right extremist and the consequences, papal election

LdN429 SPD and CDU vote for coalition agreement, Union presents ministers, career changers in the cabinet, Minister of State for Culture Weimer controversial, culture war in the Union, power outage in Spain, electronic patient record launched, call: phones in schools

LdN428 CumEx & Co: How the State Loses Billions to Tax Fraud – and Why It Puts Up with It (Interview Anne Brorhilker, Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende)

LdN427 Merz Provokes SPD Ahead of Membership Vote, Minimum Wage Dispute, Taurus Deliveries, Climate and Gas Power Plants, How Does the Lobby Stop the Sugar Tax? (Cem Özdemir, Federal Agriculture Minister), Trump Ignores Supreme Court

LdN426 Trump's tariff chaos escalates into a trade war, SPD and Union agree on coalition deal, analysis of the coalition agreement, health policy of the future (Prof. Christian Karagiannidis, health expert)

LdN425 Trump Blows Up Free Trade, Tariffs (Marcel Fratzscher, DIW), Ornamental Hedgehogs and the Complex Practice of the European Customs System, Court Strips Marine Le Pen of the Right to Stand for Election, Heating Transition Through Geothermal Energy

LdN424 Signal chats with JD Vance, constitutive session of the Bundestag, coalition negotiations, digitization of public administration (Christina Lang, DigitalServices GmbH Bund), protests in Turkey (Tina Blohm, FES Istanbul), Smart Meter feedback

LdN423 Bundestag allows record debt, Smart Meter disaster, Trump calls Putin, report from Syria (Sophia Maier, journalist), mass protests in Serbia (Adelheid Wölfl, journalist)

LdN422 Coalition in Formation, Text for Basic Law Amendment, Debt Plans from Union and SPD (Michael Hüther, Economist), Investments in Climate Neutrality, The Left Want to Sue Against GG Amendment, Zeitenwende in Europe, USA Mutating into an Autocracy, Reintroduce Conscription?

LdN421 Oval Office Massacre, Europe Plans Self-Defense, Merz Wants Special Fund and Debt Brake Reform, Will the Greens Agree? (Jamila Schäfer, MdB Die Grünen), Hurdles for the Merz Reforms

LdN420 Bundestagswahl 2025: Winners and Losers, AfD Soaring (Julia Reuschenbach, Political Scientist), Dent from the New Electoral Law, Coalitions, Two-Thirds Majorities, Debt Brake until April

LdN419 End of a world order, Trump blames Ukraine for the war, Ukraine summit in Paris, Friedrich Merz’s business ties, criminologists criticize politics, feedback on cutting red tape

LdN418 Coup in the USA?, Trump negotiates with Putin over Ukraine (Interview Claudia Major, political scientist), TV debate, Bundestag election under new rules, corruption in Germany, CLOUD Act and data protection, cutting bureaucracy in practice (Interview Heidrun Hausen, DELO)

LdN417 Merz's path to the Chancellery blocked?, No emergency due to crime, Speed limit saves lives, Basement storage onto the power grid, Trump's tariffs, USA ends development aid, Trump wants to take over Gaza, Freedom in autocracies and democracies

LdN416 Merz Undermines the Firewall, Feedback Causa Stefan Gelbhaar, AI Surprise DeepSeek, Interview Maral Koohestanian (Volt Lead Candidate), Book Tip: "Pearls of Local Journalism"

LdN415 Attack in Aschaffenburg, Trump inaugurated, the Stefan Gelbhaar affair, Interview Christian Lindner (FDP lead candidate)

LdN414 Electronic Patient Record with Problems, Habeck's Proposal for Social Insurance, Parties' Campaign Promises Unaffordable, DFL Must Pay for High-Risk Matches, Germans Abroad Fear Election Problems, Correction: Council of Elders in the Bundestag

LdN413 Scholz loses confidence vote, Deutschlandticket is coming, blackberry coalitions in East Germany, wind power boom, no blackout from Dunkelflaute, group motion on abortion, Syria after the revolution (Interview Kristin Helberg, journalist), refugees back to Syria?

LdN412 Interview: Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

LdN411 D-Day Affair, Offensive in Syria (Bente Scheller, Böll-Stiftung), Notes on the Scholz Interview, Elections in Romania, Protests in Georgia, Dealing with Right-Wing Extremism in Schools, Update on Wolves in Germany

LdN409 War and the Economy and the Left Party's Solutions (Interview Ines Schwerdtner, Die Linke), SPD Settles the Chancellor Question, Hospital Reform Is Coming, UN Climate Conference Disappoints, Violence Assistance Act, Wolves in Germany

LdN408 SPD and the K-Question, Scholz's Phone Call with Putin, Violence Against Women on the Rise, Greens' Federal Party Conference, COP29 Nearing the End, Update PIN Reset Letter for ePa

LdN407 Roadmap for new elections, Scholz or Pistorius? Legacy of the traffic light coalition, tips from the economic advisers, aging society slows the economy, becoming a poll worker, Trump and his oligarchs

LdN406 Protecting Jewish people - why the Bundestag is wrong

LdN405 Ampel at the end, Trump US President again (Interview Isabella Weber, economist)

LdN404 Ampel plans its end, outlook on US elections (Thomas Zimmer, historian), protests after parliamentary election in Georgia, UN Biodiversity Conference COP16 (Jule Reimer, climate journalist)

LdN403 CDU blocks security package, less money for integration courses, Ampel eases work permits, hospital reform passed, no PIN reset letter for ePerso, costs of border controls, Linke elects leadership, BRICS conference (Stefan Meister, DGAP)

LdN402 Aspiring psychotherapists on hold, arms deliveries to Israel, cuts at public broadcasting (Stefan Niggemeier, Übermedien), Russia's war against Germany, climate protection through new StVO, social leasing of e-cars, right-wing extremism in schools, feedback on Denmark's migration policy

LdN401 SPD after Kevin Kühnert's resignation, Denmark's migration policy, Sustainable ETFs, Peace for Ukraine (Franziska Davies, Eastern Europe historian), When are the police allowed to extract phone data?

LdN400 Escalation spiral in the Middle East, AfD torpedoes democracy in Thuringia, Group motion to ban the AfD, Interview Jan Böhmermann, Rail funding threatens the transport transition, Tax justice (Interview Katharina Beck, Die Grünen), Biodiversity

LdN399 Brandenburg state election, resignation of the Green leadership, Is Scholz the right candidate?, FDP exit plans, auto industry against CO2 limits, security package in the Bundestag, SLAPP study, GFF seeking fundraiser, Podcast conference subscribe

LdN398 Border controls in Frankfurt/Oder, Merz becomes CDU chancellor candidate, Exploding pagers and radios in Lebanon, Darknet cracked, Collapse of the Carola Bridge, Traffic light coalition plans Riester reform, Feedback on Baerbock trip, Update on e-car subsidies

LdN397 TV debate Harris vs. Trump, crisis at Volkswagen, new EV subsidies, border controls at Germany's external borders, Middle East trip with the Foreign Minister, German Israel policy (interview with Annalena Baerbock, Federal Foreign Minister)

LdN396 Special: What responsibility do the media bear for the rise of populism? (Julia Reuschenbach, Political Scientist)

LdN395 Elections in Thüringen and Sachsen, reasons for the AfD's success in the East (Interview Steffen Mau, Sociologist), Union and migration, arguments against AfD theses, climate change is transforming cities, Solingen and the political reaction, the Ampel's package of measures, Can Germany seal its borders?

LdN394 Spezial: How can migration be controlled? (Matthias Lücke, Kiel Institute for the World Economy)

LdN393 Spezial: Where are affordable apartments supposed to come from? (Klara Geywitz, SPD Federal Minister for Housing and Building)