Features Interview Tesla Podcast "We Don't Know What Crazy Means": Quinn Slobodian on Musk, the AfD and How to Understand the Modern Far Right Historian Quinn Slobodian spoke to HEIST about his books Muskism, Hayek's Bastards, and the intellectual lineage of the modern far right. Jul 22, 2026
News Deutsche Bahn BVG S Bahn Deutsche Bahn Is Banning Alcohol at All 5,400 of Its Stations You can still drink on the train, but the platform beer is over. Jul 22, 2026
News AfD Nazis Scuffles Break Out at Hitler Assassination Memorial At the 82nd anniversary of a failed plot to kill Hitler, relatives of resistance fighters took offense to the AfD's memorial wreath. Jul 21, 2026
News BER: Berlin Airport Cigarettes, Caviar, Venomous Spiders: What Gets Smuggled Through BER Customs? It was a record year for airport Zoll, which inspected roughly 662,000 pieces of luggage last year. Jul 20, 2026
Features Protest Palestine "We Can't Pretend We Don't Know": At the Rheinmetall Blockade Last week, activists tried to block the opening of a new Rheinmetall factory in Wedding which they accused of supplying weapons to Israel. Greta Thunberg was there. So were we. Jul 17, 2026
News Housing The Berlin Housing Study Vonovia Tried to Bury Vonovia commissioned a poll on Berlin's expropriation referendum, then denied it existed after the report showed 56% still back socialising profit-seeking landlords. Jul 17, 2026
News Police Berlin Man Allegedly Raped 58 Women, Exposing Dark Telegram Networks The 68-year-old electrician faces 22 charges of drugging and raping women, part of a wider pattern of Telegram networks trading assault footage. Jul 16, 2026
News CDU Health Fewer Appointments, Longer Waits: What Merz's Healthcare Cuts Will Mean for Berlin Berlin and Brandenburg's panel doctors have written an open letter to patients warning them about what's coming. Jul 15, 2026
News BVG Far Right A Berlin Court Just Ordered the BVG to Run Far-Right Ads In June, the BVG terminated an advertising campaign on its buses and trains after public backlash. A court has now ruled that right-wing platform NIUS has a right to run ads. Jul 14, 2026
News CDU Elections Kai Wegner Will Not Be Mayor Again Berlin's governing mayor Kai Wegner announced he will not run for a second term, and still faces heavy pressure for his resignation. Jul 13, 2026
News Antisemitism BVG Neukölln Principal Who Faked U-Bahn Assassination Attempt Fined €17,000 Initially celebrated for his bravery, Neukölln school principal Hudhaifa Al-Mashhadani has been uncovered as a fraud - and part of a growing trend of staged political violence in Germany. Jul 10, 2026
Interview Housing Politics "A Frontal Attack on the Constitution": DWE on Berlin's Housing Fight We spoke to Livia of Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen about Merz's attempt to thwart the socialisation of housing. Jul 10, 2026
News Protest Palestine Protesters Gather in Wedding to Protest Arms Production; Police Crack Down The first day of the protests planned against Rheinmetall's new Wedding munitions plant were met with a heavy police response. Jul 9, 2026
News Drugs Police Berlin Drug Dealers Are Leaving Free Samples in The Mailbox Police say residents have been finding free starter packs of cocaine and ketamine right at the front door. Jul 8, 2026
News Politics Berlin Senate New Berlin Election Polling: Die Linke Lead With 11 Weeks to Go Die Linke lead Berlin's polls, as rents dominate voter concerns and debate builds over a possible AfD ban. Jul 7, 2026
News Housing Berlin vs. Landlords: New Database to Log Every Rent in the City Berlin has approved a database that will make landlords log every rental contract in the city. Plus, a new portal for reporting your overpriced rent. Jul 6, 2026
Podcast LGBTAfD Historian Ben Miller on the use and abuse of queer politics by the German far-right and the disturbing rise of homonationalism. Jul 6, 2026
Podcast The U-Bahn Assassination That Never Happened Journalist Yossi Bartal on the Al-Mashhadani case. Jul 6, 2026
Podcast How It Feels to Be Palestinian in Berlin Journalist Hebh Jamal on surviving the German Staatsräson and "imported antisemitism." Jul 6, 2026
News Politics Health Workers in Germany Will Now Need a Sick Note from Day One Friedrich Merz wants workers to provide a doctor's note from the first day of sickness, and he's scrapped calling up your Hausarzt by phone. Jul 3, 2026
Features Music & Clubs Palestine Critics Tried to Block Kneecap From Playing in Berlin. They Came Anyway. In an exclusive backstage interview, the Irish band talks about the political pressure that forced them to play their first Berlin gig in secret. Jul 2, 2026
News Construction Gigafactory Expansion: Tesla Announces 1,000 New Jobs in Grünheide Elon Musk still wants to build the largest factory complex in Europe. Jul 1, 2026
Interview Sport “99% of people around the world are playing football without any money” The creator of Berlin's first Indie Football Festival on how he built an event to celebrate amateur football against the backdrop of a profit-driven World Cup. Jun 30, 2026
News Police BSR The Undercover Cigarette Police Are Out This Week And they can fine you €3,000 for a discarded butt. Jun 30, 2026
News Weather Climate change Heatwave Recap: Police Water Cannons, Lightning, One Baby Drinking Beer Will the chaos inspire politicians to take heat-related climate change seriously going forward? Jun 29, 2026
