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The Volksbad and the Shifting Politics of Swimming Pools

VON Esra Sarıoğlu

Berlin’s public pools have become battlegrounds over race, security, and national decline. The moral panic surrounding the Volksbad project asks what remains of the pool as a public good, and what kinds of social life can still take shape there.

How Russia Broke Its Internet

VON Vladimir Konchayev

Once among the world‘s most open, Russia’s internet is now a maze of proxies, spyware, mandatory apps, and sandboxed networks. Writing under a pseudonym, a Russian journalist reports on what remains of the free web under Putin’s wartime regime.