Berlin election winners and losers - with the HEIST editors
The HEIST editors break down the major storylines of the Berlin election.
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Steal the media back. Berlin stories, told by the people who reported them.
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A podcast from Berlin's worker-owned magazine. HEIST editors Ruthie Weissmann, Peter Matthews, Ivona Alavanja, and Ben Schuman-Stoler talk with the journalists and experts behind the stories that matter most for Berlin, Europe, and the world.
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Behind the scenes at HEIST
How do the editors at HEIST choose what news and features we publish? Founding editors Ruthie Weissmann and Peter Matthews talk about some of their favorite Berlin animal stories, stories that went viral, and what happens on a very slow news day.
The hypocrisy of "Staatsräson"
How Germany became UNRWA and Palestinians' biggest state donor, and the campaign to challenge that.
Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah on Germany's Colonial Past
On European blindness, Germany's shame, and different kinds of global centers.
From Electric Cars to Tanks
Peter Matthews is joined by investigative reporter Lea Fauth. They discuss her reporting about two German factories that used to produce trains and electric cars - and now manufacture weapons.
How high would you get at the psychedelic fest?
HEIST founding publisher Ben Schuman-Stoler talks to Lily Johnston about her experience at TRYP Expo, Berlin's new festival for "human flourishing.”
Quinn Slobodian on Muskism and the AfD
HEIST founding editor Peter Matthews is joined live at Chapters Bookshop in Berlin by historian Quinn Slobodian to discuss his latest book, Muskism, and ideas about the far-right and the AfD from his 2025 Hayek's Bastards.
LGBTAfD
Historian Ben Miller on the use and abuse of queer politics by the German far-right and the disturbing rise of homonationalism.
The U-Bahn Assassination That Never Happened
Journalist Yossi Bartal on the Al-Mashhadani case.
How It Feels to Be Palestinian in Berlin
Journalist Hebh Jamal on surviving the German Staatsräson and "imported antisemitism."