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Young people are unhappy, and many observers think they know what is to blame: technology.

The German political establishment’s so-called firewall against the far right is crumbling. This month, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) secured 44 percent of the vote in the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt.

Not long after he arrived in Ireland over the weekend, President Donald Trump declared that it would be “fantastic” and a “cool thing” if the island were to be politically unified, offering an unexpected boost to the Irish republican cause.

The new Netflix production Generation 9/11 is one of those documentaries that tries to do too many things at once, but it finds some of its most affecting moments in interviews with the grown children of the dead.

When Army Air Forces officer Claude Eatherly piloted the plane Straight Flush in support of Enola Gay’s mission to obliterate the city of Hiroshima, his tasks were little different from those of past flights.