Megan's Megacan: Hindsight is 2020
PODCAST! Megan and Konrad round up 2020 through the medium of a light-hearted quiz to try and make it more bearable.
View ArticleOUT NOW! Our 200th issue!
EXB celebrates with 35 portraits from those thousands of Berliners we’ve featured through interviews, profiles and reportage over 19 years.
View ArticleMegan's Megacan: School's Out. Or In? Or What Now?
The Berlin education department ended a week of inglorious incompetence by u-turning on Friday afternoon at 5:20pm, after an all-out revolt from teachers and parents. Megan was fuming.
View ArticleWhy did Merkel close Glühwein stands but not schools?
The predicted second wave is here and a mistranslation in the media reflects our longing for existential drama, as Konrad Werner writes.
View ArticleMegan's Megacan: The Dawn of Armin
The CDU has picked Armin Laschet to be its new leader, just as the polar vortex shifts. Coincidence? And why can't Friedrich Merz be Economy Minister if he says he wants to be?
View ArticleMegan's Megacan: Hessen In A Can
This week, the Megacanners visit the great state of Hessen, where the courts have just delivered two major verdicts, and the AfD is trying to pretend it's not full of Nazis. Time for an Apfelwein!
View ArticleOUT NOW! Our 201st issue!
EXB celebrates with 35 portraits from those thousands of Berliners we’ve featured through interviews, profiles and reportage over 19 years.
View ArticleWalter Lübcke: A right-wing murder, and political indifference
In his latest column, Konrad Werner asks, why did CDU politicians show so little interest in the trial of a neo-Nazi murderer?
View ArticleMegan's Megacan: Flying With Two Cans
On this week's gentle rummage through the news, Konrad and Megan try to figure out what Berlin's neutrality law is all about, why hairdressers get to open earlier, and why people keep abusing politicians.
View ArticleMegan's Megacan: Rent Cap Unscrewed
On this week's slightly more sober show, Megan and Konrad unpick the stats after one years of the rent cap and discuss whether the US should be deporting 95-year-old former concentration camps guards...
View ArticleOUT NOW! Our 202nd issue!
This month, we look at mental health in Berlin. We visit churches and clinics, and ask: are single, lonely millennials the pandemic’s forgotten victims?
View ArticleMegan's Megacan: Lockdown Lockerung
The German government is juggling two COVID programs: Rolling out vaccines and winding in the lockdown. But can it get one right without getting the other wrong? Plus Konrad has a theory about why the...
View ArticleOne year on: Has Berlin’s rent cap actually worked?
It's been a year since Berlin’s Mietendeckel rent freeze came into effect. But has it actually helped anyone? Konrad Werner looks at the facts.
View ArticleMegan's Megacan: Maskengate
Megan and Konrad discuss the CDU's various corruptions, the Bild newspaper's pernicious influence on our psychological well-being, and Megan's upcoming German exam...
View ArticleMegan's Megacan: Honeybun the Golden Retriever (Super Election Year Special #1)
Megan's old family dog is nothing like Alexander Gauland - this and other astute political insights are in store for you as the MM team analyses last week's state elections.
View ArticleMegan's Megacan: We All Feel Stuck In A Canal
If Angela Merkel can do an Easter lockdown u-turn, so can we: This week, we tell tales of the high seas to make up for being stuck at home all day. And we talk about the German news a bit too.
View ArticleOUT NOW! Our 203rd issue!
This month, we dive into sex and love in Berlin. ho’s helping unemployed sex workers during the pandemic? And is OnlyFools really empowering women, or exploiting them?
View ArticleMegan's Megacan: Jesus Is In The Cave
This week, the saga of Megan's vaccination, more German inability to cope with racism, and the new COVID rules explained (but check them again for yourselves).
View ArticleMegan's Megacan: Rent Cap Ruins
On this week's podcast, the megacanners discuss the fallout from the constitutional court's decision to destroy the Berlin rent cap. And to cheer us up we watch the CDU/CSU destroy itself with a...
View ArticleCan the Greens be the new CDU?
The Greens have chosen Annalena Baerbock as their candidate for chancellor. But how can they beat a fractured CDU? Konrad Werner outlines their game plan.
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