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Wo es in Gütersloh beim Radverkehr hapert Gütersloh (din) - Wie ist es um den Radverkehr in Gütersloh bestellt? Was ist aus Sicht der Fahrradfahrer notwendig? Wir haben mit Daniel Neuhaus (42), Vorsitzender des ADFC-Kreisverbands Gütersloh, und Beisitzer Thomas Karrasch (64) gesprochen. Eine Sache ärgert sie besonders. 1,5 Meter Abstand halten zu Radfahrern: Diesen Wunsch haben Thomas Karrasch (links) und Daniel Neuhaus vom ADFC an Autofahrer. Für die Münsterstraße wünschen sie sic...

The Atlantic The criminal-justice system alone cannot remedy a distinctly American pattern. 6:30 AM ET Getty / The Atlantic Aviation deaths once looked like an intractable problem. Then the federal government began probing every plane crash with an eye toward preventing future loss of life. Our skies got much safer as a result. A similar approach could reduce police killings. A federal agency should investigate every single killing and significant injury caused by American police officers, who ...

DeAgostini / Getty / Katie Martin / The Atlantic For weeks, Americans looked on as other countries grappled with case reports of rare, sometimes fatal blood abnormalities among those who had received the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19. That vaccine has not yet been authorized by the FDA, so restrictions on its use throughout Europe did not get that much attention in the United States. But Americans experienced a rude awakening this week when public-health officials called for a pause on t...

Why wouldn’t someone want a COVID-19 vaccine? Staring at the raw numbers, it doesn’t seem like a hard choice. Thousands of people are dying of COVID-19 every day. Meanwhile, out of the 75,000 people who received a shot in the vaccine trials from Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and Novavax, zero died and none was hospitalized after four weeks. As the United States screams past 500,000 fatalities, the choice between a deadly disease and a shot in the arm might seem l...

The Atlantic Adam Kinzinger says he’ll fight to take his party back from Donald Trump. February 27, 2021 Adam Maida/ Tom Williams / Brendan Smialowski/ Getty / The Atlantic adam Kinzinger is a liberated individual—liberated from his party leadership, liberated from the fear of being beaten in a primary, liberated to speak his mind. The 43-year-old representative was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump for inciting the attack on the U.S. Capitol. “I don’t have a...

The Atlantic The Founders Were Wrong About Democracy The authors of the Constitution feared mass participation would unsettle government, but it’s the privileged minority that has proved destabilizing. February 15, 2021 Getty / The Atlantic If there was one idea shared by just about every author of the Constitution, it was the one articulated by James Madison at the convention on June 26, 1787. The mass of the people would be susceptible to “fickleness and passion,” he warned. They would ...