Amerikas Verfassung

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)