For a long time, Germans thought they were special, boasted about being the best, the strongest. The days of such German superlatives are over, says Dirk Kurbjuweit.

Now we are the most normal people in the world, says the SPIEGEL editor-in-chief. The traffic light coalition finally wants to fulfill its pension election promises, but in the last few meters there is a lot of conflict and new doubts. The more active Joe Biden appears, the more fantasies for an 81-year-old president bloom.