When politics hardly matters in politics anymore
Super Tuesday is over.
You can find results and analyzes continuously on SPIEGEL.de.
As exciting as the past few hours have been, they show the basic problem of the US presidential election: merciless personalization.
Everything comes down to just a few actors, and because that is the case, assessments of their health are more important than the actual political questions.
How different the mood in the country would be if the important issues were seriously negotiated.
The economy in the USA is booming, which is mainly due to the fact that President Joe Biden is ensuring investments (greetings at this point to the friends of the debt brake in Germany, especially to their high priest Christian Lindner).
The broad lines of Joe Biden's foreign policy are also correct.
But the fact that US foreign policy is so crucial for the world but hardly counts at home is one of the other fundamental problems of the US presidential election.
This is how our US correspondents experienced Super Tuesday
The prime ministers and the M question
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and the heads of government of the federal states want to discuss migration and asylum policy at a joint conference (MPK) today.
They last did that at the beginning of November.
At that time, among other things, they made decisions on how the accommodation of refugees should be financed.
Since then, North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) complained, not enough has happened.
“The list of unfinished homework by the traffic light government is extremely long,” he told the “Editorial Network Germany.”
In the ARD program “Maischberger,” Wüst once again spoke out in favor of asylum procedures outside the European Union.
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) has now detailed her thoughts on such outsourced procedures to SPIEGEL.
We will continue to intensively examine "whether asylum procedures are also possible in third countries in accordance with the rule of law, together with migration experts and lawyers," said the SPD politician.
"Closer cooperation is conceivable, especially with the states that are on the escape routes and protect human rights."
More background: Schwesig warns Union against fueling the migration debate
Better stay at home
Are you reluctant to go to the front door?
This is a very good quality these days.
Because it has become difficult to move around within Germany.
Today in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Ver.di union called on municipal transport companies to stop work.
Almost all major local transport companies in the state are on strike.
Ver.di has also called for warning strikes at Lufthansa.
The entire ground staff should stop working tomorrow and the day after.
The aviation security forces in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg are also scheduled to go on strike, but only tomorrow.
Lufthansa expects that around 1,000 flights will be canceled as a result and around 100,000 passengers will be affected, a company spokesman said yesterday in Frankfurt am Main.
The train drivers' union GDL will also begin a 35-hour strike on Deutsche Bahn's passenger services in the early hours of tomorrow.
For the period afterwards, the GDL threatens to carry out so-called wave strikes without prior notice.
Those of you who are still heading out into the world should please not rely on getting a rental car: On a nationwide average, 368 percent more rental cars were booked via the comparison portal Check24 at the beginning of the week than in the previous week.
That's why prices are rising.
Germany has always been considered a nation in which strikes are relatively rare, compared to France, for example.
But that is changing.
Employees in this country can also confidently make demands; they are needed everywhere.
So if at all possible, develop your penchant for domesticity, if you have one.
Maybe you would like to take a look in the basement?
Since the lockdown period, a lot of stuff has probably accumulated that could be disposed of.
The country is at a standstill, work is being done in the basement.
More background: Weselsky admits “errors in thinking,” but doesn’t call off the rail strike
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Donald Trump can be beaten:
The former president won Super Tuesday furiously - and still revealed his weaknesses.
If Joe Biden doesn't know how to take advantage of this, the incumbent should make room for a younger candidate.
Click here for the current daily quiz
The starting question today: Which of the following professional groups is not allowed to strike in Germany?
Winner of the day…
…will be “Miss Ostfriesland”.
Every year the Association of East Frisian Cattle Breeders chooses the most beautiful cow.
I mention this to recommend a book to you.
Last year, the historian and farmer's son Ewald Frie received the German non-fiction prize for his work "A Farm and Eleven Siblings" (CHBeck).
Using his own family history, Frie tells us how rapidly the lives of farmers have changed over the past fifty years.
There are also reasons why many farmers are so angry today.
In any case, when the author received the prize on June 1st at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, he imagined in his acceptance speech how he would explain to his late father the value of a book prize.
He then said he would use the example of “Cloud 2”.
"Wolke 2", a cattle from his father's herd, won the prize for the most beautiful cow at an agricultural exhibition in Frankfurt am Main in 1950 because of her extraordinary red and colorful fur grain.
Ewald Frie explains why farmers' anger is a tradition
The latest reports from the night
Peru's Prime Minister Otárola resigns:
He is said to have harassed a young woman and offered her a "very comfortable" job: Peru's Prime Minister is involved in a #MeToo scandal.
However, the woman in question speaks of a plot.
Aid convoy is turned away by Israel - and then looted:
First the trucks were diverted to an Israeli checkpoint, then apparently looted: According to the UN, "desperate people" in the Gaza Strip seized 200 tons of aid supplies.
Colin Firth's linen shirt auctioned off for almost 30,000 euros:
It is perhaps the most famous wet shirt in television history: Colin Firth once bathed in it as Mr Darcy.
But even the auction house was surprised by the highest bid.
I would particularly like to recommend this story to you today:
Is Elon Musk still good for Tesla?
The problems with the e-pioneer have been piling up - and not just since an apparently intentional power outage brought the Tesla factory in Grünheide, Brandenburg, to a standstill.
At the beginning of February, Tesla had to recall more than two million vehicles in the USA.
It was the second callback in two months.
In addition, Musk has every reason to fear the new competition that produces cost-effective, well-designed cars.
But he doesn't let himself be deterred.
With his increasingly right-wing positions and Twitter provocations, he is alienating the very target group that was among the early adopters of e-mobility: the liberals of the West Coast.
My colleague Ines Zöttl writes about the eccentric multi-billionaire at the top, who some consider to be more of a mortgage than a profit.
I wish you a good start to the day.
Yours, Susanne Beyer, author of the editor-in-chief